Now the UK is a signatory, it must consider how best to conserve its cultural heritage should an invasion ever occur

Collector George Ortiz speaks up and argues that its ratification will achieve the exact opposite of its declared aims

The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention

The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind