History is not being destroyed but the way people remember is being changed.
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The legacy of the Holocaust stretches beyond a handful of death camps and ghettos. Stumbling Stones hope to help people remember that
The proposal that monuments must be preserved at any cost hinders rather than helps institutions handle the decolonisation of their collections.
A campaign to change the name of a road in London’s ‘Little India’‘ has succeeded. While some members of the local Sikh population welcome it, others aren’t so happy.
It might have many critics but the statue tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft succeeds in its abstract commemoration of the feminist. Public sculptures could learn from it
Is the statue a fitting tribute to the fierce feminist writer?
They were made by the same sculptor but sit in two very different places. Now one is set to be removed while the other goes unnoticed.
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Development, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Social History, University of Bristol
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Associate Dean for Global Engagement and Programme Leader of BA History of Art & Museum Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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