statues

Controversial statues should be placed in a ‘museum of colonialism’, leading historian claims

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Controversial statues should be placed in a ‘museum of colonialism’, leading historian claims William Dalrymple a ‘museum of colonialism’ would highlight ‘war criminals’ Would include controversial commander-in-chief of India Sir Colin Campbell Oversaw cruel punishment on rebels – including firing them from a cannon   By Jemma Carr For Mailonline Published: 02:19 BST, 16 September 2020 | Updated: … Read more

Donald Trump vows to protect statues on North Carolina visit

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With a population of just over 120,000, other cities might lay claim to bigger roles in World War II than Wilmington, North Carolina – but the ‘Port City’ played an outsized part in defeating Nazi Germany and the Japanese empire. As FDR’s administration prepared for war in 1940, the city was chosen as the site … Read more

The City could scrap its statues to slavery in wake of BLM protests

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The Square Mile is preparing to scrap statues and other landmarks with historic links to slavery and racism, following the Black Lives Matter movement. City of London Corporation bosses, who run the area home to some of the world’s biggest banks, has now launched a three-month consultation that could see the sculptures felled for good. … Read more

Cocker spaniels are frozen like statues with their jaws clamped on a chew toy in comic tug-of-war

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Doggy deadlock! Stubborn spaniels are frozen like statues with their jaws clamped on a chew toy in comic tug-of-war Alison Watson, 59, from Bristol, gave her 14-month-old dog Marmite a Nylabone Three-year-old Nutmeg didn’t want to be left out and decided he wanted it too The pair clamped their teeth around the  dental chew and … Read more

Budapest’s amazing Memento Park is full of statues of Communist leaders from Lenin to Che Guevera 

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They didn’t chuck communist-era statues in the river in most former Soviet countries after the Iron Curtain fell.  Instead, they stuck them in museums and charged tourists to view them. Memento Park — officially named A Sentence About Tyranny Park — on the outskirts of Hungarian capital Budapest — is one of the best known. … Read more

London Mayor Sadiq Khan spent £30k on boarding up statues

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan spent £30,000 on boarding up statues in Westminster – including £10,000 to protect Winston Churchill monument which was vandalised during BLM protests Figures released show it cost £10,147 to put a hoarding around Churchill’s statue £21,115 was spent on protecting statues of Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi It cost was £3,050 to … Read more

Justin Timberlake calls for the removal of Confederate statues and to stop ‘protecting slave owners’

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Justin Timberlake has joined a growing cry for the removal of Confederate statues in the Unites States with a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday. The 39-year-old Tennessee native said on social media that the monuments ‘must be taken down’ and that doing so is ‘a symbol of respect for Black people in America.’ Just last month, … Read more

Russian billionaire offers to buy two statues BLM protesters want removed from US cities

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A Russian billionaire has offered to buy two historical US statues that BLM protesters want removed from public view due to their links to racism and colonialism. Businessman Andrey Filatov, 48, who runs the Art Russe Foundation – focusing on the preservation of soviet-era art – has made an offer to purchase two statues that US … Read more

President Trump compares protesters targeting statues to ‘Nazis and terrorists’

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President Donald Trump continued his crusade against protesters targeting statues and national monuments, in a fiery Fourth of July speech comparing the ‘radical left’ to Nazis and terrorists.    Speaking from the White House South Lawn on Saturday during the ‘Salute to America’ Independence Day celebration, Trump struck a combative tone, doubling down on his attack … Read more

Trump says black people who want statues removed ‘need to learn’ from history or ‘go back to it’ 

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Donald Trump has said that black people who want statues of slave owners and Confederate figures removing should ‘learn from the history’ or risk ‘going to go back to it sometime’. Calls to remove statues of Confederate figures and those connected to slavery have been mounting in recent weeks in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests sparked … Read more