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2001, Removal of the blackamoor caricature for restoration At some stage between August 1995 and June 2001, the blackamoor caricature was removed for restoration works. A photo of the building by Maurice R Teal dated June 13th 2001 from Historic England Archive shows the figure absent from the building at this date. By February 2004, with restoration work on the figure and clock complete, the Blackboy Clock had been re-assembled in its original position.
- 2002, The Trooper statue enters the collections of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
- 2004, Reinstallation of the statue of William Mackinnon in Campbeltown, Scotland
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2005, The statue of William Huskisson is re-erected in Liverpool
- 2006, 'Restoration' art exhibit by Hew Locke
- 2007, (Operation) Truth 2007
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2007, Opening of the London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery
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2007, Shrouding of the Robert Milligan statue
In November 2007, the statue of Robert Milligan was shrouded on the opening day of the London, Sugar & Slavery Gallery at the Museum of London Docklands. The statue was concealed beneath a black shroud, bound with thick, black rope and floodlit, as an act of protesting its presence. Harry Cumberbatch, a member of a consultative committee working with the Museum at the time, took the accompanying photograph of the shrouded statue in order to preserve its message of resistance. - 2007, The statue of Alexander Taylor is placed into storage
- 2008, Creation of the Bristol Legacy Commission
- 2008, Unveiling of The Trooper statue at Hatfield House
- 2010, Creation of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
- 2010, Dissolution of the Bristol Legacy Commission
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2015, Anti-colonial protest boards hung on the Redvers Buller statue The protest boards read "Wanted! For war crimes committed in China, Sudan and South Africa" and "Colonialism is nothing to be proud of". A pride flag was also attached to Buller's statue.
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2016, Oriel College, Oxford announces it will not remove the Rhodes statue The decision by Oriel came in response to the threatened withdrawal of £100 million in donor gifts to the College if the statue were to be removed, which was later revealed in a leaked letter from the development office to the governing body of the college.
- 2016, Rhodes Must Fall Oxford protest against the Christopher Codrington statue
- 2017, "Unauthorised Heritage" plaque attached to plinth of the Edward Colston statue
- 2017, Face of Edward Colston statue is painted white
- 2018-2019, Wording dispute over the proposed second plaque for the Colston statue
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2018, All Souls College installs a plaque to commemorate the enslaved people on the Codrington plantations The plaque was installed at the entrance to the College Library. Its text reads as follows: 'In Memory of Those Who Worked in Slavery on the Codrington Plantations in the West Indies'
- 2018, Bristol City Council makes planning application to add a second plaque to the Colston Statue
- 2018, Guerilla art installation at the base of the Edward Colston statue
- 2018, Woollen red ball and chain attached to the legs of the Edward Colston statue
- 2019, Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees vetoes plans for second plaque to Colston statue over wording dispute
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2019, Creation of the Bristol Legacy Steering Group 2019, Création du groupe de pilotage de l'héritage de Bristol
- 2019, Redvers Buller statue graffitied
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2019, Seventeen of Sixty-Eight art exhibition Baltic Artists’ award winner Ingrid Pollard's Seventeen of Sixty Eight (2019) examined the representation of Black figures on pub signs and architecture across the United Kingdom. The title refers to the 68 pubs across the county that had "Black Boy" in their name in 2019. The work was shown again at Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2022.
- 2020, 'Nazi' sprayed on the statue of Nancy Astor in Plymouth
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2020, Colston statue retrieved from canal Bristol City Council retrieved the statue of Edward Colston from the Bristol canal, where it had been thrown by protesters on 8 June.
- 2020, Creation of the Project TRUTH steering group in Bristol
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2020, Equestrian statue of Prince George is graffitied
The plinth and front relief of the statue were graffitied with BLM (Black Lives Matter) tags.
- 2020, Far-right protest "in defence" of the Winston Churchill statue
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2020, Graffiti on the Winston Churchill statue The Churchill statue's plinth was graffitied with the words 'was a racist' during the Black Lives Matter protests.
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2020, Graffiti on the Winston Churchill statue The Churchill statue's plinth was graffitied with the words 'is a racist' during a climate change demonstration.
- 2020, Installation of the A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) sculpture
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2020, Interpretation board placed by the former plinth of the William Huskisson statue
The text on the interpretation board reads as follows: "William Huskisson 1770–1830 whose statue once stood on this plinth was MP for Liverpool from 1823 to his death in 1830. He first entered parliament in 1796 and as M.P. for Liskeard voted for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. During his time representing Liverpool many of his supporters in the town were plantation owners and were not in favour of an end to slavery in Britain’s colonies. These pro-planter sentiments led Huskisson to oppose the abolition of slavery; and in 1826, rather than support calls for immediate abolition, Huskisson championed the passing of the Consolidated Slave Law, introduced as a compromise between those agitating for the abolition of slavery and the planters who wanted to maintain it. Huskisson did not live to see the abolition, he was killed on the 15 September 1830 whilst attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Slavery was finally abolished by the British in 1834. In the early hours of July 22, 1982, the statue was removed from the plinth by a group of activists offended at Huskisson’s role in supporting slavery." - 2020, Museum of the Home announces it will retain and explain the Robert Geffrye statue
- 2020, National Trust removes Dunham Massey Hall sundial
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2020, Online petition to change the name of Blackboy Road in Exeter The petition, which garnered 2,907 signatures as of April 5th 2024, laid out the following argument for changing the name: "Blackboy Road in Exeter is named after King Charles II. Charles had a darker complexion, different height and features from those around him which led to him being known as "Black boy". I think the fact this hasn't been changed already is insensitive and ignorant so having just moved into the area and learned the history behind the name, I want to see it changed. It's 2020 and we still have a road named after a racist nickname given to one of our monarchs. Please get behind this by signing the petition and sharing with as many people as you can. Thank you."
- 2020, Online petition to keep the name of Blackboy Road in Exeter
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2020, Protest graffiti and placard on the statue of Abraham Lincoln
The letters "A C" were graffitied in front of the ABRAHAM LINCOLN inscription (i.e. ACAB, or All Cops Are Bastards). A placard with the words HATE KILLS LOVE HEALS was placed in Lincoln's arms. - 2020, Protesters topple statue of Edward Colston
- 2020, Redvers Buller statue placed under review by Exeter City Council
- 2020, Removal of black boy pub sign in Retford
- 2020, Removal of black man's head pub sign in Ashbourne
- 2020, Removal of the A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) sculpture
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2020, Retaliation attack on the grave of Scipio Africanus The attacker smashed the headstone of Africanus's grave and left a message: 'Put Colston's statue back or things will really heat up'.
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2020, Retaliation attack on the statue of Alfred Fagon The statue of Fagon was covered in a suspected corrosive substance.
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2020, Statue of Jan Smuts is graffitied The statue of Smuts was graffitied with the BLM (Black Lives Matter) tag.
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2020, Statue of John Witherspoon graffitied The words "BLM" (Black Lives Matter) and "slave-owner" were graffitied on the plinth of the statue, in protest of Witherspoon's slave-ownership.