Making public history: Statues and memorials
Abstract
In working on this edition Keira Lindsay and Mariko Smith have asked ‘whether monuments
should be deconstructed, reconstructed or destroyed.’1
Clearly attention to statues and
memorials has recently been explored in many countries. Certainly in Britain there has been
much discontent as I shall explain, yet opposition to particular statues has seemed to ignore
and overlook progressive memorials and historical measures – towards black and ethnic
minority groups that have been widely developed and supported in the past.