Requiescat: A Cat's Life At the British Museum

Between World Wars, Mike the cat emerged as the British Museum's star, befriending Wallis Budge, an unconventional Egyptologist. Amid a resurgence of spiritualist beliefs intertwining science and the supernatural, Budge and Mike navigated a world fascinated by ghosts, mummies, and ancient curses. As mystical forces swirled around them, they remained allies, even as the museum's artifacts seemed to wield their own mysterious powers.

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About the Author: Nigel Barley
Nigel Barley is the author of some twenty books with Penguin, Time Warner, Monsoon, Eland and Little,Brown. He originally trained as an anthropologist and worked in West Africa, spending time with the Dowayo people of North Cameroon. He survived to move to the Ethnography Department of the British Museum, settled on Indonesia as his principal research interest and has worked on both the history and contemporary culture of that area. After escaping from the museum, he is now a writer and broadcaster and divides his time, with his partner, between London and Indonesia.
Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest spiritualist ideas were in full resurgence, when ghosts, mummies and lethal curses were held to stalk the earth and many leading scientists, writers and thinkers saw no contradiction between science and belief in the supernatural. And through such tempestuous times, Budge and Mike remained friends and allies as unearthly forces flickered all about them and the objects of the museum collection refused to be mere exhibits but pursued their own dark purposes across the years.

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