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Plan to 'retain and explain' controversial statues is flawed – why we should always question our monuments

The long-awaited government guidance on the official “retain and explain” policy suggests the UK’s contested statues and monuments be retained as long as additional context is provided. But given their controversial past, how do we go about that?

The Conversation

Window of slave trader replaced with multi-racial Jesus in boat with refugees

The window was temporarily replaced with plain panels and the church invited the public to submit new designs in a competition

Wales Online

Activist who raised fist on Colston's plinth releases new children's book

Her pose was immortalised in a controversial statue

Bristol Post

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Bristol church to install 'multi-ethnic Jesus' stained glass windows instead of 'grotesque' Colston

"To encourage parishioners to look at a memorial to a slave trader is not only grotesque but entirely contrary to the Gospel"

Bristol Post

Bristol streets named after Edward Colston won't be changed, says city council

The council said it would need to see 'overwhelming support' from property owners'

Bristol Post

How the fall of Edward Colston’s statue revolutionised the way British history is told

The tearing down of memorials to colonialists like Colston forced us to ask questions about whose voices we remember, and whose stories we are told

The Guardian - UK

Elite UK schools’ financial links to slavery revealed

Exclusive: research shows mostly private schools given equivalent of tens of millions of pounds of donations by British slavers

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Direct ancestors of King Charles owned slave plantations, documents reveal

Records show direct ancestor of king was involved in buying at least 200 enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s monarchy backed slavery from day one

Letters: Jordan Andrews on Charles II’s backing for the Royal African Company. Plus, Robert Godsill on Oliver Cromwell’s leading role in slavery

The Guardian - UK

Man who put Star Wars droid on Colston's plinth rescues it from council tip

Staff at the Hartcliffe Way household recycling site confirmed it was the droid he was looking for

Bristol Post

Star Wars battle droid disappears from Colston statue plinth after just a few hours

Artist Simon Francis Thomas originally said the droid would occupy the plinth until April 9

Bristol Post

King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links

Historical expert welcomes support for research but calls on monarch to acknowledge what happened

The Guardian - UK

Those who tore down Colston’s statue helped lead us to the truth about slavery and the monarchy

BLM protesters in Bristol were accused, in 2020, of ‘erasing history’. Now we know they have flooded it with light, says law lecturer Kojo Koram

The Guardian - UK

Dark history of William and Kate's home - as King promises to help investigation

The Royal Family has, for the first time, welcomed research into the historical links between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave trade

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King Charles backs research into monarchy's slave links

King Charles has given his support to research that will examine the British monarchy's links to slavery, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, after a newspaper report said a document showed a historical connection with a transatlantic slave trader.

The Guardian - UK

The Colston connection: how Prince William’s Kensington Palace home is linked to slavery

Palace was residence of William III, who was given shares in slave-transport company, and successive monarchs involved in trade

The Guardian - UK

King Charles signals first explicit support for research into monarchy’s slavery ties

Buckingham Palace makes public statement after Guardian presents evidence of royals’ long history of involvement in transatlantic trade

The Conversation

Lady Rhondda: the little-known suffragette whose efforts led to greater equality for women

The design for a statue of a leading suffragette has been unveiled in Newport, south Wales. Margaret Haig Thomas or Lady Rhondda was a lifelong campaigner for women’s rights and was the first woman to hold a hereditary peerage, though she was barred from taking up her seat in the…

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Environmental activists on trial barred from citing climate crisis in their defence

Four Insulate Britain activists recently stood trial at Inner London crown court on a public nuisance charge for blocking a busy London junction in October 2021. Like Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain is waging a civil disobedience campaign to force the government to implement policies to tackle climate change and…

Bristol Post

Plaque marking spot where Colston statue was dumped in Bristol's harbour has moved

"The Museums Service are currently going through the acquisition process to include the plaque as part of the city’s collection.”

The Guardian - UK

Exhibition lays bare Church of England’s links to slave trade

Artefacts on show at Lambeth Palace Library include a ‘slave bible’, with all mention of ‘freedom’ removed

Bristol Post

Black Boy Lane in Tottenham renamed - why Bristol's Blackboy Hill hasn't been

Black Boy Lane in Tottenham has a new name

The Guardian - UK

C of E’s historic slavery fund – worth £100m but how far will it stretch across communities?

Clerical leaders hope for ‘lasting legacy’ to serve places affected by past slavery trade, but fund may spread thinly across all of west Africa and Caribbean

The Independent UK

BLM organiser denies fraud charges related to Colston protest

Xahra Saleem has been accused of two counts of fraud by abuse of position in relation to fundraising pages.

Bristol Post

All the Bristol people awarded with New Year’s Honours this year

One person in Bristol received the highest ranking order this year

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