At the British Museum
Julia Smith: ‘Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint’, 15 July 2021
“... The show opens in 12th-century London, where Becket was born in 1120, or thereabouts, to a Norman mercantile family of rising prosperity. Some pottery, coins and a pair of bone ice skates, supplemented by a manuscript illustration of boys skating and sledging, represent the environment in which the young Becket grew up, but we’re given little sense ... ”