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• 2024 Monument à la mission Marchand
• A Surge of Power (Jen Reid), 2020
• Albert Memorial
• Allégorie des colonies d'Afrique, Marseille
• Allégorie des colonies d'Asie, Marseille
• Allégories des colonies d'Asie et des colonies d'Afrique, Marseille
  Deux groupes situés au bas de l'escalier monumental de la gare Saint-Charles à Marseille et représentant les colonies d'Asie et les colonies d'Afrique. Chaque groupe est construit autour d'une figure féminine à la pose alanguie avec un enfant couché à ses pieds et un ou une adolescent-e assis-e face à elle et lui présentant une corbeille de fruits. Colonies d'Asie : s'y ajoutent un lion de style khmer, un vase représentant des danseuses (apsaras) et une banquette avec le motif du serpent à 7 têtes. Colonies d'Afrique : s'y ajoutent, une vase, une défense d'ivoire, un figuier de barbarie, deux singes (une mère et son petit), un tronc de palmier et une palme, un crâne de bélier.
• Blackboy Clock
  A large clock, four foot by four foot with golden roman numerals on a black background, which incorporates a blackamoor caricature of an African child into its design. When functioning, the caricature is meant to ring a bell on the hour. The clock was assembled in 1774 by John Miles but the creation of the figure may predate this. At present, the exact origins of the statuette are unclear. It bears some resemblance to painted wooden figures of “Black Boys” that were used as tobacconists’ shop signs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the clock was not originally sited on a building for selling tobacco goods. Many "Black Boy" names, signs, and architectural features are still in existence across the rural and urban landscapes of modern Britain. They are increasingly the site of contestation over the ways in which racism has been physically inscribed in the environment, as many events since 2020 have demonstrated.
• Boer War Memorial (The Black Watch), Edinburgh
• Boer War Memorial, Aldershot
• Boer War Memorial, Bedford
• Boer War Memorial, Beeston
• Boer War Memorial, Belfast
• Boer War Memorial, Bellingham
• Boer War Memorial, Birmingham
• Boer War Memorial, Brighton
• Boer War Memorial, Bristol
• Boer War Memorial, Bury
• Boer War Memorial, Bury St Edmunds
• Boer War Memorial, Canterbury
• Boer War Memorial, Cardiff
• Boer War Memorial, Cheltenham
• Boer War Memorial, Clifton College
• Boer War Memorial, Darlington
• Boer War Memorial, Dewsbury
• Boer War Memorial, Earlestown
• Boer War Memorial, Gateshead
• Boer War Memorial, Glasgow
• Boer War Memorial, Guernsey
• Boer War Memorial, Halifax
• Boer War Memorial, Huddersfield
• Boer War Memorial, Ipswich
• Boer War Memorial, Islington
• Boer War Memorial, Kingston upon Hull
• Boer War Memorial, Manchester
• Boer War Memorial, Newcastle
• Boer War Memorial, Norwich
• Boer War Memorial, Nuneaton
• Boer War Memorial, Penrith
• Boer War Memorial, Penzance
• Boer War Memorial, Salford
• Boer War Memorial, Shrewsbury
• Boer War Memorial, Wallasey
• Boer War Memorial, Warrington
• Boer War Memorial, Wigan
• Boer War Memorial, Winsford
• Boer War Memorial, Worcester
• Bust of Agatha Christie, Torquay
  A small bust in bronze, mounted on a stone plinth, situated close to the Pavilion. It shows the author with a sympathetic expression and small smile, her head slightly titled to one side. The English Riviera website says: "The Agatha Christie Memorial Bust was commissioned by the English Riviera Tourist Board to mark the centenary of the author’s birth on September 15, 1890. Sculpted by the Dutch artist Carol Van Den Boom-Cairns, it was based on a photograph taken when the author was in her 60s. Unveiled by Agatha’s daughter, it was for many years the only bust of the author in the world, until an Agatha Christie Memorial was unveiled in London’s Theatreland in 2012 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of The Mousetrap." The statue was unveiled on 15 September 1990 by Agatha Christie's daughter, Rosalind Hicks. This day was also the occasion for a banquet, whose menu is preserved at the Torquay Museum. The Torquay Museum, about ten minutes walk from the statue, includes an Agatha Christie exhibit. This consists of furniture and props received from ITV Studios after the completion of filming of the final episode of its adaptation of Christie's Poirot novels. The furniture was installed in the museum in 2013. Further donations were received from the actor David Suchet, who had successfully played Poirot in the series. The exhibited items are framed by interpretive panels which speak of Agatha Christie's childhood, adult life, marriages, literary career and the adaptations of her novels. It barely mentions her travels in the Middle East, and makes no mention of the British Empire and its Mandates in the region.
• Bust of Haile Selassie
  The bust of Selassie, first erected in 1957, was destroyed by a group of protestors on June 30th 2020. The likely motivation for the action was a response to the killing of the Ethiopian protest singer Hachalu Hundessa in Addis Ababa the previous day.
• Bust of Henry Tate, Brixton
• Bust of John Harding, Taunton