{"id":11124,"date":"2022-02-19T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=200325"},"modified":"2022-02-19T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T13:09:09","slug":"the-secret-ww2-mission-to-save-britains-art-collections","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-secret-ww2-mission-to-save-britains-art-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret WW2 mission to save Britain\u2019s art collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Caroline Shenton tells the story of the colourful cast of curators, museum directors and civil servants who embarked on a top-secret mission to protect Britain\u2019s national art collections during the Second World War. Speaking to Emily Briffett, she explains how these dedicated men and women devised ingenious escape plans and concealed artworks and artefacts in the most unlikely of places in a race against time to save the nation\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-200325-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/HistoryExtra_2022_02_19-4c8e99b.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/HistoryExtra_2022_02_19-4c8e99b.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/HistoryExtra_2022_02_19-4c8e99b.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Caroline Shenton is the author of <em>National Treasures: Saving the Nation\u2019s Art in World War II <\/em>(John Murray Press, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/national-treasures-saving-the-nation-s-art-in-world-war-ii\/9781529387438&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/National-Treasures-Saving-Nations-World\/dp\/B09B46PBRM?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/national-treasures\/caroline-shenton\/9781529387438&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/the-secret-ww2-mission-to-save-britains-art-collections\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Briffett Published: Saturday, 19 February 2022 at 12:00 am Caroline Shenton tells the story of the colourful cast of curators, museum directors and civil servants who embarked on a top-secret mission to protect Britain\u2019s national art collections during the Second World War. 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