Toppled? Museum curator who sparked outrage after tweeting a guide about vandalising ‘racist’ statues using household items has left her job Museum curator Madeline Odent posted guide about vandalising ‘racist’ statues Her comments led to calls for her to be sacked from her taxpayer-funded job Royston Town Council has refused to say if Ms Odent … Read more
Willy the fish: Penis-shaped statues of leaping piscenes are demolished in Morocco as locals say they should never have been erected Moroccans have scoffed and raged at the statues of the peach-coloured fish Demolition began on Thursday in the coastal town of Mehdia, near Kenitra Locals are angry that money was spent on statues instead … Read more
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
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
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 chew toy Three-year-old Nutmeg didn’t want to be left out and decided he wanted it too Pair clamped their teeth around the flavoured chew you … Read more
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
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
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
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
First they came for the statues; then they came for the stained glass windows. Yes, the fashion (at least among undergraduates) for trashing commemorative edifices is developing new forms. And in one particular case, the targeted memorial is barely 30 years old. This is the Sir Ronald Fisher memorial, a stained glass window in the … Read more