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The campaigns in universities across the world to reject,rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collisionwith the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford'smost famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to otheruniversities and their benefactors, and now also affects civic monuments andstatues in towns and cities across the country. In the United States, memorialsto leaders of the Confederacy in the American Civil War and to otherslaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue tohonour benefactors and historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethicallyunacceptable? How can we reconcile the views held by our ancestors with thosewe now hold today? Should we even try, acknowledging, in the words of thenovelist L. P. Hartley, that `the past is another country; they do thingsdifferently there'? The essays in this interdisciplinary collection are drawnfrom a conference at the Institute of Historical Research in the University ofLondon. Historians, fundraisers, a sociologist and a museum director examinethese current issues from different perspectives, with an introductory essay bySir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy. Together they explore anemerging conflict between the past and present, history and ideology, andbenefactors and their critics.
Contents
Preface Notes on contributors1. Introduction David Cannadine2. Commentary on universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors Jill Pellew3. The English civic universities: endowments and the commemoration of benefactors H. S. Jones4. Donors to an imperial project: Randlords as benefactors to the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College ofScience and TechnologyJill Pellew5. The expectations of benefactors and a responsibility to endowJohn Shakeshaft6. The funder's perspective Victoria Harrison7. Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven8. From objects of enlightenment to objects of apology: why you can't make amends for the past by plunderingthe present Tiffany Jenkins9. British universities and Caribbean slavery Nicholas Draper10. Risk and reputation: the London blue plaques scheme Anna Eavis and Howard Spencer11. `A dreary record of wickedness': moral judgement in history Brian Young12. We have been here before: `Rhodes Must Fall' in historical context Lawrence Goldman Bibliography Index
