Tag: Cecil Rhodes
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The Culture Wars and the Rhodes Trust at 120
4 July 2023. In this YouTube video, presented by the Alliance of Rhodes Scholars, Nigel speaks on Cecil Rhodes and the ethics of empire. Nigel’s talk was part of a panel on the history of the Rhodes Trust.
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History Defended
Oriel College’s statue of Cecil Rhodes has become a lightning-rod in the debate about Britain’s colonial past. But the complexities of the man and his activities in South Africa are often reduced to crude hyperbole and absurd analogy. The Telegraph has recently posted Steven Edginton’s interview of Nigel Biggar, in which they explore Rhodes’ life and work in…
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The Controversial Legacy of Cecil Rhodes
In the last few months a group of students at the University of Oxford has been applying pressure on the governing body of Oriel College to remove a memorial plaque and statue of Cecil Rhodes, the nineteenth-century British colonialist and businessman who attended Oriel and bequeathed a substantial legacy to it on his death in 1902. In…