Dethroning historical reputations : universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors /
The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford's most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to other univer...
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London :
Institute of Historical Research,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / David Cannadine - Commentary on universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors / Jill Pellew - The English civic universities : endowments and the commemoration of benefactors / H.S. Jones - Donors to an imperial project : Randlords as benefactors to the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology / Jill Pellew - The expectations of benefactors and a responsibility to endow / John Shakeshaft - The funder's perspective / Victoria Harrison - Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum / Laura N.K. Van Broekhoven - From objects of enlightenment to objects of apology : why you can't make amends for the past by plundering the present / Tiffany Jenkins - British universities and Caribbean slavery / Nicholas Draper - Risk and reputation : the London blue plaques scheme / Anna Eavis and Howard Spencer - 'A dreary record of wickedness' : moral judgement in history / Brian Young - We have been here before : 'Rhodes must fall' in historical context / Lawrence Goldman.