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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Commentary on universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors
  10. 3. The English civic universities: endowments and the commemoration of benefactors
  11. 4. Donors to an imperial project: Randlords as benefactors to the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology
  12. 5. The expectations of benefactors and a responsibility to endow
  13. 6. The funder’s perspective
  14. 7. Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  15. 8. From objects of enlightenment to objects of apology: why you can’t make amends for the past by plundering the present
  16. 9. British universities and Caribbean slavery
  17. 10. Risk and reputation: the London blue plaques scheme
  18. 11. ‘A dreary record of wickedness’: moral judgement in history
  19. 12. We have been here before: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ in historical context
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

Index

A-level history syllabus, 135

Aberdeen, University of, 95, 100, 103

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first baron, 120–3

Aikenhead, John Lawrence, 101

All Souls College, Oxford, 18, 23, 73, 95, 99, 106, 134

Americans, native, 21–2, 83

Amory, Benjamin, 104

Amory, John James, 104

Anderson, Perry, 118

Anglo-Confederate Trading Co., 99

Anthony Nolan Trust, 58

Antigua, 105, 106

Arkwright, Sir Richard (blue plaque), 109

Arts Council, 47

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21

Ashton, Algernon, 108

Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (A.L.V.A.), 70

Atkins, John, 96

Audi, Alan, 90

Audley, Sir Thomas, 18

Augustine of Hippo, 47, 51, 55, 123

Balfour, Arthur James, first earl of Balfour, 36, 41

Balliol College, Oxford, 18, 27, 104

Balliol, John de, 18

Banks, Tony, 139

Barbados, slavery and slaveholding in, 73, 96

Barkan, Elazar, 92, 93, 98

Barnardo, Dr. Thomas, 61

Bartley, George, 108

Bass, Lee, 3

Bazalgette, Joseph, 108

Beaufort, Lady Margaret, 15, 17

Beckford, family of slaveholders in Jamaica, 104

Beit, Alfred, 35, 37–46

Beit, Otto, 38, 40, 42–3, 45

Belloc, Hilaire, 45

Benin bronzes, 22, 77, 81–2, 84, 91

Berlin, Isaiah, 119

Berlin, University of, 47, 52, 119

Bernard, Susannah James, 103

Bernard, Charles Edward, 103

Bessemer Laboratory, Royal School of Mines, 46

Bessemer memorial fund, 40

Beyer, Charles, 29–30

Birmingham, University of, 1, 2, 29, 30, 34, 58

Black and Asian Studies Association, 111

‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre (Londonderry, 1972), 83

Bodleian Library, Oxford, 15

Bodley, Sir Thomas, 1, 15

Boer War, 23, 39, 45

Bogue, Tony, 93

Bolton, John, 96

Boode, Mary Anne, 104

Bristol, Colston benefactions to, 132–4

Bristol, University of, 1, 2, 24, 27, 29–30, 106

opposition to the Wills’

benefactions, 31n, 106

British Guiana, 96, 104, 106

British South Africa Company, 5, 39

Brooklyn Museum, 74

Brown, Gordon, 58

Brown University, vii, 34, 94

Brunel University, 34

Brunner, John, 30

Burckhardt, Jacob, 119–20

Burns, John, 45

Burrow, John, 118

Butterfield, Herbert, 120

Calhoun, John C., 6–7, 9, 122

Calhoun College, Yale University, 6–7, 93n, 131–2

Cambridge, city of, 139

Cambridge, University of, 1, 15–18, 26–7, 33, 47–55, 81–2, 84, 95, 102, 104–5, 120, 123

Advisory Committee on

Benefactions and External Legal

Engagements (A.C.B.E.L.A), 50–55

benefactions to, 49–55

Cambridge Assessment, 49

Cambridge University Press, 49

Cameron, David, 61, 83

Cape Town, University of, vii, 5–7, 42

origins of ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ movement at, 85

Cardiff Metropolitan University, 32

Carlyle, Thomas, 122–3

Carnegie, Andrew, 2, 40

Carnegie Trust, 61

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1

Central Lancashire, University of, 32

Central Mining and Investment Corporation Ltd., 43

Chadwick, Owen, 12

Chamberlain, Joseph, 2, 58

Chandler, Raymond (blue plaque), 112

Charlottenburg, Technische Hochschule, 36

Christ Church, Oxford, 17, 18, 104, 105

Christie, Richard Copley, 29

Christ’s College, Cambridge, 17, 18

City and Guilds Institute, 36, 41–2

City Parochial Charities Act 1883, 28

City University, 34

Clarkson, Thomas, 102

Clifton College, 27

Clothworkers’ Company, 27

Clough, Arthur Hugh (blue plaque), 112

Codrington, Christopher, 23, 73

Codrington estates, Barbados, 96

Codrington Library, Oxford, 73, 95, 99, 134

Cole, Sir Henry, 107–8

Collini, Stefan, 117

Collins, William Wilkie (blue plaque), 111

Colston, Edward, 132–3

Colston Hall, 132,

Colston Girls’ School, 132

Colston Primary School, 132n

commemoration of benefactors, ceremonies for, 1

Common Ground, 74

Cook, Captain James, voyages of, 77

Cornell, Ezra, 34

Coronation Park, Delhi, 86, 130

Creighton, Mandell, 120–3

Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton

Crewe-Milnes, first marquess of Crewe, 45

Cromwell, Oliver, 139

statue of in Westminster, 138–9

Crossman, R. H. S. (Richard), 58

Cunningham, Laurie (blue plaque), 110

Curzon, George, first marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 28

Cust, Sir Edward, 104

Darwin, Charles, 68, 122

Daunton, Martin, 130

Davies, Howard, 3

Davis, Jefferson, 85

Dawes, Henry, 106

Dawkins, John, 99

Dawkins, Richard, 99

De Beers Consolidated Mines, 38, 42

decolonization, 85–6

De-colonial Cultural Front (U.S.), 74

Decolonize the Museum Critical Communities’ Collective (Netherlands), 73–4

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 22

Devonshire, Spencer Comton Cavendish, eighth duke of, 41

Dickens, Charles, 108, 122

Dictionary of National Biography, 137

Disraeli, Benjamin (blue plaque), 108

Dolby, family gift to the University of Cambridge, 49

Dollar Academy, 105

Draper’s Company, 28

Dudley, John William Ward, first earl of, 96

Duffy, Eamon, 24

Duke, James Buchanan, 34

Dunbarton estate, Jamaica, 103

Durham Cathedral, 27

Durham, University of, 27

Edinburgh, University of, 95, 105

educational endowments, Victorian reform of, 25–8, 126–30

Edward VII, 36, 40, 42

Edward Lawrence & Co., 99

Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans) (blue plaque), 110

Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 88

Elgin marbles, the, 90–1

Emanuel Hospital Foundation, 128

Emory University, 34

Endowed Schools Act, 1869, 126–9

Endowed Schools Commission, 1869–74, 126–9

English Heritage, 107, 114, 131

Eton College, 97, 106

Ewart, William, 107

Ewing, James, 104

Exeter College, Oxford, 17

Eyre, Governor of Jamaica, see Governor Eyre Defence Committee

Fawcett, Dame Millicent Garrett, statue of, 139

Firth College, Sheffield, 34

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1

Flick, Gert-Rudolph, 3, 20

Foner, Eric, 131n

Franklin, Benjamin (blue plaque), 108

free speech, decline of respect for, 134

Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 134

Froude, J. A., 123

Gaddafi, Colonel, 3

Galton, Francis (blue plaque) 112

Gandhi, Mahatma (blue plaque), 111

George Eliot, see Eliot, George George Mason University, 34

George Washington University, 34

Georgetown University, vii, 93, 101

Gibbon, Edward, 8, 123

Gladstone family, and slavery, 98

Gladstone, John, 96

Gladstone, W. E. G., 114, 127, 129

Glasgow, University of, 95, 105

Goldsmith’s Company, 28

Goldsmith’s University of London, 28

Gomme, Laurence, 111

Governor Eyre Defence Committee, 122

Grace, W. G. (blue plaque), 110

Gray, Effie, 122

Gray, John, 104

Greater London Council (G.L.C.), 107

Great Exhibition, 1851, 36–7

Greenwich Hospital, 101

Greenwich Park estate, British Guiana, 104

Haberdashers’ Company, 28

Haldane, R. B., 35–7, 40–1

Hall, Catherine, 119

Harcourt, Sir William, 45

Harvard, John, 34

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, 61

Hendrix, Jimi (blue plaque), 110

Heriot-Watt University, 33

Heywood & Co., 98

Hibbert, Robert, 99

Hibbert Trust, 99

Higher Education Act, 2017, 47

Higher Education Funding Council for England (H.E.F.C.E.), 47

Hillsborough tragedy (1989), 83

historicism, 117–20

Historic England, see English Heritage history curriculum, schools’, 134–6

Hobhouse, Arthur, first baron Hobhouse, 127

Hobsbawm, Eric, 8

Hobson, J. A., 45

Holt, George snr., 99

Holt, George jnr., 99

Hopkins, Johns, 34

Hopper, Grace Brewster Murray, 6

Hughes, Thomas, 122

Humboldt, Alexander von, 47, 52

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 114, 122

Imperial College of Science and Technology, vii, 5, 35–7, 40–6, 81

Institute of Historical Research, University of London, vii, 2, 4, 125, 130

Irons, Revd Dr. William, 129

Jamaica, slavery and slaveholding in, 96, 99–104, 106

Eyre Rebellion in, 122

Jameson, Dr. Starr, 39

Jameson Raid, 5, 39, 45

Jarvis, Dr. Thomas, 105

Jefferson, Thomas, 85, 122

Jesus College, Cambridge, 81–2

Jesus College, Oxford, 105

John Moores University, Liverpool, 15, 32

John Rylands Library, Manchester, 29–30

Keats, John (blue plaque), 112

Keble, John, 26–7

Kellogg College, Oxford, 58

Kennedy, Walter, 103

Kennedy, William, 103

Keogh, Sir Alfred, 45

Kerr, Clark, 25

King’s College, Cambridge, 17

King’s College, London, 95

Kwoba, Brian, 73

Labouchere, Henry, 45

Laing, Rev. David, 106

Lane Fox, General Augustus, 68–9

Langworthy, Edward, 32

Lawrence, Sir Edward, 99

Leeds Beckett University, 32

Leeds, University of, 1, 27–8, 29

Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, 94–5, 136–7

Leicester Polytechnic, 34

Lennon, John (blue plaque) 110

Leno, Dan (blue plaque), 110

Leporius, priest in the fifth century church, 51

Leslie, Hugh Fraser, 100

Liverpool, connections with slavery, 96, 98–9

Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 98

Liverpool Royal Institution, 98

Liverpool, University of, 1, 24, 29–30, 58, 97–8

Llandovery College, 105

Lloyd, Marie (blue plaque), 110

Lobenguala, king of the Matabele, 5

London County Council (L.C.C.) 37, 40–1, 107–14

London School of Economics, 3, 10, 36n, 103, 137n

London, University of, vii, 1, 27, 35–6

Louis Napoleon, see Napoleon III

‘Love Among the Ruins’ (Browning, Burne-Jones et al), 131

Lyttelton, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, 127–9

Macaulay, T. B., 118–9

Mack Smith, Denis, 24

McNabb, John, 105

Magdalen College, Oxford, 18

Magdalene College, Cambridge, 18

Malik, Kenan, 86

Manchester, 19

Manchester Mechanics Institute, 33

Manchester, University of, 1, 24, 29–30, 32, 34, 106

Manning, William, 96

Manning & Anderdon, West India merchants, 96–7

Markland, James Heywood, 101

Mason, Josiah, 30

Mason College, Birmingham, 30

Matthew, Colin, 137

Maxim, Hiram (blue plaque), 115

Maxwele, Chumani, 85

Medical Research Council (M.R.C.), 57

Meinecke, Freidrich, 119

Mellon, Andrew, 4

memorial museums, 84

Mercury, Freddie (blue plaque), 110

Mill, John Stuart, 122

Montford, P. R., 43–4

Moore, Robert (‘Bobby’) (blue plaque), 110

Moores, John, 15

morality, history and, 120–3, 134–6

Morant, Sir Robert, 41

Mount Lebanus estate, Jamaica, 106

Mowat, Sir Francis, 41

Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 74

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 74

Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Aus., 89

Muzeon Sculpture Park, Moscow, 130

Napoleon III (blue plaque), 114

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 139

Natural History Museum, London, 84

Nazism, historiography of, 119

Nelson, Horatio Lord (blue plaque), 108

Neville, George William, 81

New College, Oxford, 17, 27

North London Collegiate School, 106

Nuffield College, Oxford, 58

Nuffield Foundation, 60

Okukor, the, see Benin Bronzes

‘Old Mother Riley’ (Arthur Lucan) (blue plaque), 110

Oriel College, Oxford, vii, 5, 6, 15, 84–5, 125, 128, 130

Owens College, Manchester, 29, 34

Owens, John, 29, 30–32

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 136–8

Oxford High Street, 5, 84

Oxford Movement, 26–7

Oxford, University of, vii, 1, 3, 5–7, 10, 15–20, 22, 23, 26–8, 33, 47, 58, 59n, 68–9, 73, 74, 76–8, 84–5, 95, 101, 104–5, 122, 125, 134

Clarendon Laboratory, 28

Radcliffe Science Library, 28

Social anthropology department, 28

Pallmer, Charles Nicholas, 96

Peckard, Peter, 102

Percival, John, 27

Petre, William, 17

Petrie, Flinders, 68

Phillips, Thomas, 100, 137

Phillpotts, Rev. Henry, 96

Pitt Rivers, General, see Lane Fox, General Augustus

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 22, 65–79

Shuar and Ashuar cultures, 71–2

tsantas (shrunken heads) in, 22, 71

Pope, Thomas, 18

Pollard, A. F., 2

Porgès, Théodore, 37

Porgès, Jules, 38

Porter, Henry, 90

Pound, Ezra (blue plaque), 113

Power, John Cecil, 2

present-mindedness, 8, 91, 125, 135–7

Princeton University, 3, 6–7, 10

Purdue, John, 34

Queen’s College, Harley Street, London, 106

Queen’s College, Oxford, 101

Queen Mary University of London, 28

Qwabe, Ntokozo, 85

Randlords, 37, 39, 40, 45

Rathbone, William, 58

Regent Street Polytechnic, 28

reparations (for historic wrongs), 82–3, 86–90

repatriation (of historic artefacts), 22, 75, 81–4, 86, 88–9

restitution (of appropriated artefacts), 82–3, 88–90

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (blue plaque), 108

Rhode Island University, vii

Rhodes, Cecil, vii, 3, 5, 10, 15, 32, 38, 44, 84–6, 122, 125, 139

Rhodes Must Fall (campaign), vii, 5, 6, 19n, 31n, 35, 73–4, 85–6, 117–8, 122, 125, 129, 131, 134n

Rhodes Scholarships, 5, 6, 10, 85

Rhodes University, 42

Robbins Report (Report of the Committee on Higher Education 1963), 2

Robert Gordon University, 33, 58

Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, first earl Roberts (blue plaque), 114

Robertson, Charles, 3

Robinson, Canon Hugh, 127

Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth earl of Rosebery, 36, 40–41, 113, 139

Royal College of Science (R.C.S.), 36–7

Royal School of Mines (R.S.M.), 35–7, 40–1, 43, 45–6

Ruskin, John, 108, 122

Rutgers University, 34

Rylands, John and Enriqueta, 29–30

St. Andrews, University of, 95

St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, 18

St. David’s, Lampeter, see University of Wales Trinity St. David

St. John’s College, Cambridge, 15

St. John’s College, Oxford, 17

St. John’s School, Leatherhead, 106

St. Kitts (West Indies), 101, 104

St. Vincent (West Indies), 100

Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, third marquess of, 128

Salovey, Peter, 131

Sandby, Revd George snr., 102

Sandby, Revd George jnr., 102

Sanger Institute, 57

Savile, Jimmy, 114

Scott, George Gilbert, 106

sculpture

commissioning of, 131

re-siting of, 86, 130–1

Shaw, George Bernard (blue plaque), 113

Sheffield, University of, 1, 29, 34

Shirley, Dame Stephanie, 59

Siddons, Sarah (blue plaque), 108

Simmons, Ruth, 93, 102

Simon de Montfort University, 34

Simpson, Wallis, 114

slave trade, Atlantic, 23, 31, 91, 94, 96–98, 102, 105, 132–4

slavery, v, 6, 19, 23–5, 45, 54, 58, 73, 84, 91, 93–106, 130, 132–4, 136–7

abolition in the United States by the 13th Amendment, 130

and Quakers, 31

and universities, 30–1, 93–106,

contemporary disputes over in the United States, 130, 134

Smith, Payne & Smith, bankers, 96–7

Smuts, Jan Christian, 53

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 96, 101

Society of Arts, 107

Spencer, Herbert, 68

Stalin, Josef (blue plaque?), 115

Stanford, Leland, 34

Stanley, Alice, 68

Starkey, David, 130

Stephen, Leslie, 137

Stirling Castle estate, Jamaica, 101

Stopes, Marie (blue plaque), 113

Storer, Anthony Morris, 106, 137

Street, George, 108

Sullivan, Robert, 119

Sussex, University of, 118

Tate family, 31

Tate, Sir Henry, 32, 97

Taunton Commission (Royal Commission to Inquire into Schools in England and Wales, 1864–8), 126–7

Tawney, R. H., 103, 136–7n

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 122

Thibou’s estate, Antigua, 105

Thomas, Keith, 59

Thompson, E. P., 117–8

Thompson, S. A., see S. A. Thompson Yates

Thompson, Samuel Henry, 97–8

Tobago (West Indies), 103

Torpey, John, 86–7

Trinity College, Oxford, 18, 101

Trinity College, Cambridge, 105

Tryall estate, Jamaica, 102

Turner, Edward, 103, 137

universities, names of, 32–4

University College, London, 40, 95, 103, 106, 136

University College London Hospital, 58

university extension movement, 27

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.M.I.S.T.), 32

University of Wales Trinity St. David, 100

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 34

VärldskulturMuseum (Gothenburg), 75

victimhood, growth of, 89–90

Vincent, John, 8

Virginia, University of, 122

Warburg Institute, University of London, 2

Warner, Marina, 88

Warwick, University of, 118

Waterhouse, Alfred, 106

Waterhouse, Nicholas & Sons, 106

Weatherall Institute, Oxford, 57

Webb, Aston, 43, 46

Webb, Sidney, Lord Passfield, 35, 40, 41

Wernher, Julius, 35, 37–46

Wernher, Beit & Co., 38, 40–1, 43

West India Planters and Merchants, Society of, 96, 101

whig interpretation of History, 117–20

White, Sir Thomas, 17

Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester, 29

Whitworth, Joseph, 29–30

Wiener, Martin, 109

Wilberforce, William, 96

William of Wykeham, 17

Williams, Joanna, 82

Willis, Elizabeth, 89

Wills family (Bristol), 2, 30–2, 106

Wilson, Rev. John, 101

Wilson, Woodrow, 3, 6–7

Wilson College, Princeton University, 6–7

Wried, Ann Catharina, 103

Wolfson College, Oxford, 58

Wolfson Foundation, 4, 57n, 59, 62

Wolsey, Cardinal, 18

Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University, 3, 6–7

Woolf, Harry, Lord Woolf, 3

Yale, Elihu, 34

Yale University, 3, 6–7, 10, 93, 117, 131–2

Yates, Elizabeth, 97–8

Yates, Joseph Brooks, 97–8, 137

Yates, S. A. Thompson, 97–8

Youth Business Trust (Prince of Wales’s), 59

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