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14 de may. de 2024 · In this view, which was not entirely dispelled by E. P. Thompson, the radicals of unreformed England were Gladstonian liberals in utero. All they lacked was the whiskers. That was before Iain McCalman’s Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (Cambridge, 1988).
24 de abr. de 2024 · Thomas Picton was a British Army officer killed during the Battle of Waterloo and his statue had stood in the building for 104 years. But Picton was also known as the ‘tyrant of Trinidad’ who directly used the slave trade to build up his wealth and was even found guilty of ordering the torture of a 14-year-old girl of mixed-race ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · Thomas Picton: Four monuments, five buildings and 30 streets. Lord Nelson: Seven monuments, six buildings and 18 streets. King William IV: Five buildings and seven streets. Winston Churchill:...
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Hace 6 días · Jack Hawkins plays General Sir Thomas Picton, a key British military leader during the battle of Waterloo.
Hace 4 días · For instance, artistic works commissioned a few years ago by the Amgueddfa Cymr – National Museum of Wales, sought to reimagine narratives about Sir Thomas Picton. After the Black Lives Matter Movement questioned monuments in public spaces, the museum felt it was necessary to encourage a community-based conversation about someone who was widely known for his cruelty, but who was still ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · The irascible Thomas Picton had a very checkered career but performed well for the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War. Special guest and author Graeme Callister joins the show to discuss this talented, but infamous, British general.
23 de abr. de 2024 · The Welsh Government audited contentious public artworks in 2020 and created a dossier of statues which included Waterloo hero Thomas Picton and explorer Henry Morton Stanley among those who...
