Grindon, Gavin;
Williams, Jennie;
Hay, Duncan;
(2023)
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery.
Slavery & Abolition
, 45
(2)
pp. 384-407.
10.1080/0144039X.2023.2264837.
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Abstract
This article is a product of the first complete survey of British public representational monuments in the U.K. related to transatlantic slavery, available online at https://www.britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net. Identifying over 900 monuments, it brings this survey to bear on current public and policy debates about such monuments’ history, significance and meaning vis-à-vis slavery, art and heritage. Examining the monuments at scale, we identify the monuments’ patterns of production and provide data-led answers to specific questions such as what Britain’s most significant monumental legacies of slavery are; how enslaved people appear in British public monuments; and how this data might support rethinking these monuments.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0144039X.2023.2264837 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2023.2264837 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Monuments, statues, public art, memorials, propaganda, British art |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204413 |
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