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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Flawed plan to ‘explain and retain’ controversial statues

October 23, 2023 by Claudine van Hensbergen Leave a Comment

“There are, though, exciting ways that monuments could be used to throw light on the events of the past. They hold the possibility of being key objects for understanding the writing of history itself, and of how biased and complex that act can be.

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