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? Done properly and creatively, with adequate funding and accurate, innovative storytelling, this could throw light on the different … [Read more...] about Flawed plan to ‘explain and retain’ controversial statues
Claudine van Hensbergen
About Claudine van Hensbergen
Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle