Artifacts and materials connected to the history and culture of the Mongols across many generations are preserved in numerous countries around the world. Within the framework of the project “Mongolian Heritage Spread around the World,” launched in 2014 with the aim of locating, researching, and jointly publishing these materials, monuments related to Mongolian history and culture preserved in Britain have been compiled and published under the title “Mongolian Historical and Cultural Heritage in Britain.” The book was officially launched on February 12, 2026.

This 13th volume of the series was led on the Mongolian side by Academician S. Chuluun, Director of the Chinggis Khaan National Museum, and from the British side by independent researcher Sue Byrne, who has made outstanding contributions to the study of Mongolian Buddhism. This volume in the series was co-authored and published by a high-level international team of scholars, including experts from the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of London Library, and the British Museum.

Within the framework of the “Mongolian Heritage Spread around the World” project published by the Chinggis Khan National Museum, this 13th volume has overcome the most difficult and challenging period and has now reached the public. This book is not only a work of historical research but also represents the first step toward systematically publishing the scholarly legacy on Mongolian cultural heritage dispersed across the globe. Academician S. Chuluun, the book’s author, emphasized that this marks the first time Mongolian heritage preserved in Britain has been comprehensively identified, selected, and published.

At the book launch, General Editor Sue Byrne participated online from London and stated that it was an honor to serve as the General Editor of the UK volume of the “Mongolian Heritage Spread around the World” series. She noted that the previous volumes of this prestigious series have set a high standard. We began our research in the collections of the British Museum and the British Library, two of the most prestigious institutions in the United Kingdom. The British Museum recently opened a new exhibition hall dedicated to ceramics and metalwork from the Ilkhanate period and mounted a special exhibition of Ilkhanate pottery and metal objects, most of which are included in this book. She also discovered that the Stein Collection of the British Library preserves several Mongolian-script manuscripts collected near Khara-Khoto in the Ejin Gol region. She expressed her gratitude to all those who provided encouragement, trust, and collaboration during the difficult and demanding search for these treasures, and voiced her hope that this volume would serve as a first step toward broader future research in Britain and the discovery of many more cultural treasures.

Among the outstanding works included in the book are a Yuan dynasty Mongolian military weapon, the famous purse of a Mongol queen associated with the history of the Ilkhanate, Undur Gegeen Zanabazar’s deity Demchig, a letter sent by Sain Noyon Khan Namnansuren to King George V of Great Britain, and selected artifacts related to history from the Chagatai Khanate and the Yuan dynasty through to the early 20th century.

This project has identified, over a period of 12 years jointly researched, and published with official permissions and professional scholarly annotations. Historical and cultural monuments and artifacts related to the Mongols preserved in museums, libraries, archives, and private collections in countries such as Russia, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Taiwan, Norway, and Germany. The results have been published as 13 volumes in Mongolian, English, and Russian.