Empty Spaces: Where are the Statues to Imperial Victims?
In the midst of a revolution against problematic historical statues, we might reflect on the …
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More than Morse: The Origins of Policing in Oxford
When we think of policing in Oxford, the most enduring image that comes to mind …
Oxford’s Night Soil Man
The row of houses on the north-east end of St Clement’s Street today looks rather …
Sir John A. Macdonald: National Hero or Architect of Genocide?
On Saturday August 29, 2020, Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Rights protestors unbolted and pulling …
Horatio Nelson: Turning a blind eye to slavery?
Some of the monuments currently under the spotlight depict individuals who were lost in the …
Churchill’s Legacy: Not Yet Set in Stone
Churchill had chosen the spot for his statue in Parliament Square himself, over a decade …
King Leopold II: A Bloody Legacy written in Marble
Many representations of Leopold II can be found dotted around Brussels, as well as several …
The Duke of Wellington: The man with a cone on his head
Carlo Marochetti’s equestrian statue of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, which resides over Royal Exchange …
Francis Galton: Eugenics and Modern Medicine
Galton’s political beliefs evidently undermined the rigour of his qualitative claims. What is less discussed …
Toppling Statues: An Oxford Tradition
A mirror for the Rhodes Must Fall protests, four centuries ago and just across the street.
Rhodes is not a Colossus
Rhodes wanted to be a colossus, and was described as such; yet his legacy, and …
A Primer for Empire: Fletcher and Kipling’s School History of England
Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1857-1934) and Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) published A School History of England …
