TALKING POINTS
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In January, four people involved in the tearing down of a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol were cleared of criminal damage, reigniting the debate about the role of historical statues in our view of the past. Historian and broadcaster Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner), for instance, tweeted that “statues are put up in praise, they can be taken down in condemnation. That is not changing the past, it’s reflecting what we value in our present.”