LEADER 02751nam 2200421 450 001 9910283651403321 005 20200617164106.0 010 $a1-909646-83-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000006096500 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120800 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006096500 100 $a20200608d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n####||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDethroning historical reputations $euniversities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors /$fedited by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman 210 1$aLondon :$cInstitute of Historical Research,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 152 pages) $ccolor illustration 225 1 $aIHR Shorts 311 $a1-909646-82-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aThe campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford?s most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to other universities and their benefactors, and now also affects civic monuments and statues in towns and cities across the country. In the United States, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy in the American Civil War and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour benefactors and historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unacceptable? How can we reconcile the views held by our ancestors with those we now hold today? Should we even try, acknowledging, in the words of the novelist L. P. Hartley, that ?the past is another country; they do things differently there?? The essays in this interdisciplinary collection are drawn from a conference at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London. Historians, fundraisers, a sociologist and a museum director examine these current issues from different perspectives, with an introductory essay by Sir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy. Together they explore an emerging conflict between the past and present, history and ideology, and benefactors and their critics. 410 0$aIHR shorts. 606 $aUniversities and colleges$xFinance 606 $aEducational benefactors 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xFinance. 615 0$aEducational benefactors. 676 $a379.1214 702 $aPellew$b Jill 702 $aGoldman$b Lawrence$f1957- 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910283651403321 996 $aDethroning historical reputations$92864727 997 $aUNINA