Speaking out: David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, at the Hay Festival in 2018
(Picture: Getty Images)EDWARD COLSTON’s statue being dumped in the Bristol harbour was the defining moment of anti-racism protests in 2020, but a historian has suggested if it had been located in the City of London, the statue would never have come down.
“Had Edward Colston been memorialised in the city where he worked rather than the city where he was born it’s difficult to imagine his statue… would not still be standing today,” historian and broadcaster David Olusoga said.
