Cast in Stone
Statues and memories of empire in post-imperial France and Britain
This website is the product of a project called Cast in Stone, which is about statues related to the colonial histories of France and Britain. Many of these statues are, or have been, the subject of public controversies. This website is a free resource with which people can inform themselves about the unique histories of individual statues, the local communities in which they are located, the laws and authorities that govern them, and the divergent ideas about them. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Labex les passés dans le présent, and is jointly led by the Université Paris 8 and the University of Exeter.
Latest blog posts
- Exeter’s Fourth Plinth?
By Ghee Bowman There’s been a lot of conversation in some Exeter circles about the statue of Redvers Buller that… Read more: Exeter’s Fourth Plinth? - “This Brazen Image”: Richard Westmacott’s Wellington Monument, Sculpted Male Bodies, and the Power of Laughter Today
Writing about colonial statues, the biographies of their depicted subjects, and acts of contestation in the present can often feel… Read more: “This Brazen Image”: Richard Westmacott’s Wellington Monument, Sculpted Male Bodies, and the Power of Laughter Today - Colonial Statues on Twentieth-Century Film
Introduction Of all the films I’ve watched throughout my life, Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin! (2003), a tragicomic story of an… Read more: Colonial Statues on Twentieth-Century Film