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The Long Shadow of Edward Colston
'Colston is far from sunk; Rhodes' hold on Oxford is similarly far from fallen.'
Oriel JCR pass motion demanding removal of Rhodes statue
Oriel JCR voted yesterday for a motion which mandates the JCR to demand the removal of Oriel's Cecil Rhodes statue. The motion passed with...
Oxford protests Cecil Rhodes
Over a thousand people, of every college, faculty, and ethnicity, gathered on Tuesday to peacefully protest the statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes...
Oxford Chancellor criticises campaigns to remove Rhodes statue as ‘hypocrisy’
Oxford University Chancellor, Lord Chris Patten, has labelled calls to “throw the Rhodes statue in the Thames” as “hypocrisy”, because the Rhodes Trust funds...
80,000 sign petition and Oxford City Council call for Rhodes removal
A petition demanding the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes on an Oriel College building on the High Street has hit 80,000 signatures...
Students petition for removal of Rhodes statue, protest planned for Tuesday
In the wake of protests following the killing of George Floyd and an upsurge of anti-racist movement across the UK and within Oxford, there...
‘Rhodes, You’re Next’ banner put up opposite Oriel College
A banner stating ‘Rhodes, You’re Next’ has been put up on University Church, opposite the statue of Cecil Rhodes, following the pulling down of...
Rhodes must not fall – head of scholarship programme rules out name change
Elizabeth Kiss, head of the Rhodes scholarship programme, has refused to change its name on the grounds that it would be “running away” from...
Statues Must Fall
“From the United States to South Korea, debates about historical legacy and modern cultural identity have raged around these figures of iron and stone”
The walls that stare – what college portraits tell us about Oxford
They say a picture paints a thousand
words. So what do the thousands of portraits hanging around Oxford colleges
tell us about the University, and the...
Professor Biggar should be allowed to speak, even if we disagree
Our blanket decrial of Professor Biggar harms foreign policy and historical understanding
Balliol accused of bowing to “anti-colonial” pressure by moving Viceroy’s portrait
After taking it down for repairs, the college have not replaced the portrait of George Curzon to its hall.
Oxford defends don accused of “whitewashing” the British empire
Nigel Biggar had argued we should “moderate our post-imperial guilt”
