Edward Colston

• News / Edward Colston

  Police looking to identify people who pulled down Colston’s statue

  "A small group of people clearly committed an act of criminal damage"

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• News / Black Lives Matter

  Protesters topple Colston’s statue amid jubilant scenes in Bristol

  The statue was then rolled into the docks

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• Features / slavery

  A House Through Time to focus on Bristol’s slavery past

  City merchants shipped more than 500,000 people into slavery

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• News / Edward Colston

  Thieves remove Colston statue from city centre

  It has been replaced by Ursa the Bearpit bear

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• News / Edward Colston

  Anti-Slavery Day marked by new artwork in front of Edward Colston statue

  The artwork contains dozens of figurines as if packed tightly into an 18th century slave trip

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• News / Politics

  Corbyn: ‘We should commemorate those who stood up against the slave trade’

  The Labour leader visited Bristol during Black History Month

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• News / Edward Colston

  Proposed wording for new plaque on Colston statue revealed

  The consultation process saw historians work with primary school children

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• News / Edward Colston

  Colston statue given ball and chain

  Bristol's proud yarn-bombing tradition continues

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