#Colston

huck

HUCKmagazine

This morning, four people charged with criminal damage for the removal of the Edward Colston statue from a plinth in the centre of Bristol during a Black Lives Matter demonstration

Joanna Booth

stillawake

Here's the kind of language the Labours used against Clive"Like a cheap opportunist, Councillor Stevens is trying to score political points" [when he rightly pointed out the hidden £5m in

Prof Kate Williams 💙

KateWilliamsme

Why was #EdwardColston put up as a statue in Bristol in the first place, in 1895, over 170 years after he died? If they wanted a white businessman/philanthropist (and we'll

FridayJones

IAMFridayJones

So when @RepKarenBass asks am I serious about the questions I want added to immigration about applicant's family's past or current wealth coming from the slave trade or flesh trade

Prof Kate Williams 💙

KateWilliamsme

People who say - authorities should take statues down after discussion. Yes. But it isn't happening. Bristol'sbeen debating #EdwardColston for years and wasn't getting anywhere. In 2018, it was agreed

John Blake

johndavidblake

Fairly obviously, that Robert Jenrick article about statues turns out not to have been a very fair representation of the issues it purported to tackle.https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1350584333720047626 As a person obsessed with

Prof Sarah Churchwell, PhD

sarahchurchwell

A few days ago @mrjamesob asked me if I felt vindicated bc I’ve been saying for years that they’re fascists. And I realized when I woke up this morning the

Peter Mandler

PeterMandler1

For some reason, elite decisions without democratic participation to erect statues in the past are 'the people's preferences', but democratically elected local authorities' decisions to take down statues today are

Priyamvada Gopal

PriyamvadaGopal

Making history. "The protesters who brought Colston down and who now have the long-controversial Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford’s Oriel College in their sights are destroyers—but of mythology rather than

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

What is the government's position on Contested History?'Retain and Explain'The Culture Secretary wrote to Heritage bodies in September - for "contextualising and reinterpreting" "however challenging". "E

Doctor Britain

worldnoteurope

Edward Colston builds almhouses for the poor at considerable expense to himself, but he's evil.Marcus Rashford writes a letter to the government to compel them to use everyone's tax money

OT at Brunel

OTatBrunel

The past 1.5 months since #GeorgeFloyd 's murder have been a time of introspection for our occupational therapy academic team. We now have a Racial and Cultural Equity (RACE) Working

Museum of British Colonialism

museumofbc

Hello all We're back to say Happy New Year! Are we really only 8 days into 2021?2020 was tough. But it was also the year @museumofbc were able to talk

Chardine Taylor Stone

ChardineTaylor

So anything action beyond nicely writing letters to MPs is now “white privilege”.It’s “white privilege” to even protest.*stares in Rosa Parks*https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1357266955561017347 Was the pulling down of the Colst

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

It is fine to have a proper process to debate new statues, old statues, or street names - but the government is going to need to come up with a

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

Thought experimentAssume many of the estates in Jane Austen (the "thousands per year", dowries etc) were based in part on slaveryTo what extent would that change anything for you as(/if)

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