EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
This September issue invites you to read a new selection of resources on the heritage sector, as well as my article on the “decolonisation” process of the National Trust titled The National Trust and Black Lives Matter: Too Little, Too Late?.
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Thushari
Thushari Perera
BLACK EUROPE RESOURCES
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ARTICLE
The National Trust and Black Lives Matter: Too Little, Too Late?
By Thushari Perera, Black Europe Resources, 27 August 2020
GREEN/PARKS
Director of science at Kew: it’s time to decolonise botanical collections
By Alexandre Antonelli, The Conversation UK, 19 June 2020
ARCHITECTURE
Looted landmarks: how Notre-Dame, Big Ben and St Mark’s were stolen from the east
By Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian, 13 August 2020
ART
Statue of Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole fetches £101k at auction
By the Press Association, Alloa Advertiser, 1st August 2020
BLUE PLAQUES
By Abbianca Makoni, The Evening Standard, 15 June 2020
Spy becomes first woman of south Asian descent to get blue plaque in London
By Lanre Bakare, The Guardian, 28 August 2020
Iconic Black Radio Station Choice FM To Get Blue Plaque – After Rebrand ‘Erased’ Its History
By Nadine White, Huffington Post UK, 11 August 2020
Current English Heritage Blue Plaques
COINS
Campaigners seek to clarify confusion around UK’s Gandhi coin
Eastern Eye, 4 August 2020
MUSEUMS
Book – The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
By Dan Hicks, Pluto Press, 2020
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BAMER Archive Newsletter – July 2020
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