Protests at Oxford University on June 9, 2020, organized by Rhodes Must Fall Oxford (image courtesy Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford Facebook Page, used with permission) (protestors faces have been blurred ...
The Scrapbook has long been a connoisseur of bogus quotations—homely sayings attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson that sound nothing like what these men would have said. Nowadays, thanks ...
LONDON—An Oxford University college says it won’t remove a statue of 19th-century politician Cecil Rhodes that has sparked protests from students who call it an emblem of imperialism and racism. The ...
"This is an account of a fascinating alliance between two seemingly incompatible political partners. On the one side Cecil Rhodes, perhaps the greatest British imperialist of his time - on the other ...
Of all the world’s beneficent politically incorrect figures, perhaps none is more politically incorrect than Cecil Rhodes, the short-lived diamond magnate and apostle of British Imperialism who gave ...
Most historians (myself among them) nowadays find little to admire in the historical figure of Cecil Rhodes. His name has come to the fore during three recent centenaries (the centenary of his death ...