British History - Page 6

YouGov has found Black Lives Matter stunts such as protesting despite lockdown, removing statues, and taking the knee command little public support. 

Sheffield Cathedral has announced it will close down its current choir to ready itself “for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work.”

The British police force which allowed an illegal Black Lives Matter protest to destroy a statue in Bristol has released more images of people they would “like to speak to” in connection with the incident.

The Conservative government of Boris Johnson has rejected a petition to protect Britain’s statues and monuments, saying they are “satisfied” with the supposed protections already in place.

Efforts to remove a statue of Robert Clive, the great British military commander, from the English market town he represented in Parliament have foundered — at least for now.

Estate agents across England will be banned from using the term ‘Master Bedroom’ over its supposedly racist connotations as the Black Lives Matter purges continue to sweep through the country.

Colston’s statue was toppled, dragged through the streets and symbolically “drowned” while officers looked on.

Black Lives Matter UK activists have been revealed as out of touch with the British people after a Policy Exchange poll revealed that the public is concerned at the prospect of far-left activism re-writing British history.

The Archbishop of Canterbury wants us to rethink the Western notion that Jesus was white and is wondering whether to remove monuments and memorials in Church of England buildings lest they offend someone.

Seventy years ago today, on June 25th 1950, the Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th Parallel and advanced into South Korea with infantry, tanks and artillery, and the support of China and Soviet Russia.

The Guardian has promoted a petition calling for British honours depicting the victory of St Michael the Archangel over Satan to be redesigned, as the “offensive” imagery is “reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd”.

The recently “unboxed” statue of Sir Winston Churchill remained unscathed at Black Lives Matter protests in London as the Metropolitan Police (Met) finally stationed officers to guard the monument to Britain’s wartime leader.

A leading scholar at the University of Oxford believes conservatives are afraid to stand up to the “zealous left-wing minority” who want to “erase and rewrite history” in case doing so prompts the mob to destroy their careers. 

LONDON (AP) – The coronavirus pandemic has prevented druids, pagans and party-goers from watching the sun rise at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice this year.

The British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has suggested the iconic statue of Clive of India near its headquarters “may have to go”.

Amidst widespread criticism over the failures of Boris Johnson’s government to protect historical monuments and war memorials, ministers are considering a proposal that would impose prison sentences of up to ten years for defacing memorials to fallen soldiers.

The statue of Scotland’s most famous ruler, Robert the Bruce, has been vandalised with graffiti branding him a “racist king”.

The picture of Sir Winston Churchill disappeared from Google search results as the wartime British prime minister became a target for Black Lives Matter supporters amid an ongoing assault on British heritage and history.

Nigel Farage has warned that the “book-burning has started” following an announcement from a university library that they intend to “decolonize and diversify” their collection of books to appease the Black Lives Matter movement.

A group gathered around the monument to Earl Grey, the prime minister who abolished slavery, as Black Lives Matter protestors marched towards it.

A statue of the pacifist leader of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi, has become the latest target for removal by radical leftists amidst a purge of historical monuments in the UK.

Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has told Boris Johnson to “grow a pair” after seeing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square repeatedly vandalised at Black Lives Matter protests.

“We’ve got to start teaching history properly”, said Mr Farage Friday, his latest remarks in a week where he has taken iconoclasts head-on. 

Boris Johnson insisted Winston Churchill’s statue should be a “permanent reminder” of his wartime achievements — even as it was hidden within a grey box — but added that the wartime leader did hold “unacceptable” opinions.

The statue of Sir Winson Churchill has been imprisoned within a grey box to stop Black Lives Matter supporters from repeatedly vandalising it — an alternative to using active policing to deter them which some see as an admission of defeat.

Britain’s left-wing Labour Party has announced that all local councils where the party is in power will undertake a review of the “appropriateness” of statues to determine whether they should be removed over their connections to the UK’s colonial past or the slave trade.

The police officer in charge of the operation in Bristol, which saw Black Lives Matter activists topple a historical statue of British parliamentarian Edward Colston over his ties to slavery, said the city “should be proud” over the act of vandalism.

The University of Liverpool has cowed to pressure from left-wing student activists during the nationwide assault on British history and agreed to remove the name of former Prime Minister William Gladstone from a hall of residence over “his views on

The 207-year-old statue of Robert Milligan, the Scottish merchant who established the West India Docks in London, has been preemptively removed by the authorities over his links to slavery. 

Harkening back to the times of the Cultural Revolution in Maoist China, Sadiq Khan has announced a review of all landmarks in the British capital to determine whether they conform with the city’s values and ‘diversity’, suggesting that the supposedly racist monuments be replaced with tributes to LGBTQ+ and racial minority figures.

Black Lives Matter marchers in Bristol tore down a statue of philanthropist and parliamentarian Edward Colston and threw it the harbour over his ties to the slave trade.

The statue of wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has been vandalised again, with fresh graffiti branding him a “racist”.

Photographs show activists at the illegal Black Lives Matter protests in London have defaced the Cenotaph, which honours the fallen, on the 76th anniversary of D-Day.

An ancient water mill in Dorset, England has opened up commercial flour production to help feed the nation during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic after decades of operating as a tourist destination.

A poll has found that nearly half of Labour Party voters are ashamed of their country’s history and more than half, 53 per cent, are in favour of abolishing the monarchy, demonstrating the party’s leftward shift out of the mainstream of British politics.

Britain’s first professor of “Black Studies” has said the British Empire did “far more harm” than Hitler’s Germany, and branded “whiteness” a “psychosis”.