The Real Story - Should Britain Be Ashamed Of Its Colonial Past?
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This week, Owen Bennett Jones and guests are at the Oxford Literary Festival.
Across the world student bodies have been have been asking universities to distance themselves from historical symbols of oppression. In Oxford, the protests took the form of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign which began in South Africa and targeted statues of Cecil Rhodes - a committed champion of the British Empire. How representative are these protests of current sentiments in Britain and its former colonies? So how Britain should acknowledge this part of its identity? Should it apologise and pay reparations, or embrace its history with pride?
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Published on Friday, 8th April 2016.
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