Edward Colston

• Features / slavery

  Exploring the links between workhouses and slavery

  New academic research highlights links between Bristol's first workhouse and the slave economy

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• News / Bristol cathedral

  Cathedral launches art commission to honour African and Afro-Caribbean heritage

  “This is a great opportunity for an artist to make an impact”

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• News / Edward Colston

  Operation Black Vote founder calls for ‘real change’ five years after Colston’s statue toppled

  'It seems fanciful that out of those protests a global reset on race could occur'

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• News / Edward Colston

  New plaque added to empty Colston plinth

  The new plaque mentions Colston's "prominent role in the enslavement of African people"

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• News / Edward Colston

  Tory councillor likens rewording of Colston plaque to ‘Nazi historical revisionism’

  The wording for a new plaque on the empty Colston plinth has finally been agreed after six years

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• News / Edward Colston

  Row over words on Colston’s plaque

  For over six years, the council has been trying to decide what the plaque should say

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• News / Marvin Rees

  Rees says media fails to cover less ‘glamorous’ stories

  Rees continues on the promotion trail for his recently published memoir

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• News / University of Bristol

  Colston’s dolphin removed from University of Bristol signage

  Colston died nearly 200 years before the university was founded

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