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Blackboard by Jon Snow.

Jon Snow

Journalist and broadcaster
Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University

‘One is tempted in 2005 to consider Africa as our first responsibility – certainly it is my first love – but then if our global environment fails, what of Africa, what of us?’

Jon Snow’s blackboard is a recently-acquired object in the collection of the Museum. Such blackboard globes would have been used in 20th-century geography classrooms.
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