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Goldsmiths to keep slavery statues after local vote for them to stay

Deptford Town Hall

(Picture: Goldsmiths, University of London)

Four controversial statues will stay on a university building in south London after locals voted for them to stay.

The consultation, carried out in Lewisham by Goldsmiths, University of London, asked people what should happen to the statues of Elizabethan explorer Sir Francis Drake, Cromwellian admiral Robert Blake, Lord Horatio Nelson and an anonymous representative naval figure all of whom are linked to the slave trade.

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