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1894, Statue of Edmund Burke unveiled in Bristol ‘Lord Rosebery came to Bristol to unveil the statue in October 1894. He had become the Prime Minister in March, when he took over from the 85-year-old Gladstone. Due to heavy rain, Roseberry delivered his address on the life and character of Burke and his connections with Bristol in the Colston Hall.’
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1895, Statue of Edward Colston unveiled in Bristol statue of Colston unveiled by W. Howell Davies, Mayor of Bristol. This occurred on Colston Day, the birthday of Edward Colston, which had been celebrated in civic life since the 1840s. ‘the first modern memorial for Colston was created in 1846 on the replacement Guildhall in Broad Street’
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1963, Bristol Bus Boycott A boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company in protest against their racially discriminatory policy of refusing to hire Black and Asian staff.
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1963, Bristol Bus Boycott 1963, Boycott des bus de Bristol
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1992, "Commemoration Day" installation at the Trophies of Empire art exhibition Bristol-born artist Carole Drake (a former pupil of Colston's Girl's School) created the installation "Commemoration Day" at the Arnolfini as part of the Trophies of Empire art exhibition, with the aim of drawing attention to Colston's involvement in the slave-trade. "Featuring a projected image of students from the artist’s old school, Colston Girls’, climbing on the statue of Colston, a replica of which hung from the ceiling, casting a haunting shadow on the projection. Drake wrote that ‘into this dark hole had been sucked the histories of thousands of black children, men and women, sacrificed a second time in order to present an uncomplicated, unsullied image of Colston as a benign patriarch’. The installation included a sound tape of the school hymn Rejoice ye pure in heart. Underneath the statue lay a bed of chrysanthemums, supposedly Colston’s favourite flower, which were left to slowly wither and decay during the exhibition." (Bluecoat Library)
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1998, 'Fuck off slave trader' painted on Colston statue in red paint The Guardian reports: The first direct action against the Colston statue takes place, with “fuck off slave trader” painted on the statue overnight in red paint. Days later a Bristol councillor, Ray Sefia, said he could understand why the statue was targeted. “It’s like having a monument to Hitler,” he told the Bristol Post. “We have to be very clear about Colston’s role in the slave trade.”
- 1998, Bristol City Councillor Ray Sefia calls for the removal of the Edward Colston statue
- 1999, A plate of raw liver on a blood-spattered table is placed under the Edward Colston statue to symbolise how he "dined" on slavery
- 2002, The Trooper statue enters the collections of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
- 2006, 'Restoration' art exhibit by Hew Locke
- 2006, Creation of the Bristol Radical History Group
- 2007, (Operation) Truth 2007
- 2008, Creation of the Bristol Legacy Commission
- 2010, Dissolution of the Bristol Legacy Commission
- 2017, "Unauthorised Heritage" plaque attached to plinth of the Edward Colston statue
- 2017, Face of Edward Colston statue is painted white
- 2018-2019, Wording dispute over the proposed second plaque for the Colston statue
- 2018, Bristol City Council makes planning application to add a second plaque to the Colston Statue
- 2018, Guerilla art installation at the base of the Edward Colston statue
- 2018, Woollen red ball and chain attached to the legs of the Edward Colston statue
- 2019, Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees vetoes plans for second plaque to Colston statue over wording dispute
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2019, Creation of the Bristol Legacy Steering Group 2019, Création du groupe de pilotage de l'héritage de Bristol
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2020, Colston statue retrieved from canal Bristol City Council retrieved the statue of Edward Colston from the Bristol canal, where it had been thrown by protesters on 8 June.
- 2020, Creation of the Project TRUTH steering group in Bristol
- 2020, Installation of the A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) sculpture
- 2020, Protesters topple statue of Edward Colston
- 2020, Removal of the A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) sculpture
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2020, Retaliation attack on the grave of Scipio Africanus The attacker smashed the headstone of Africanus's grave and left a message: 'Put Colston's statue back or things will really heat up'.
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2020, Retaliation attack on the statue of Alfred Fagon The statue of Fagon was covered in a suspected corrosive substance.
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2020, We Are Bristol Commission appointed A few months after the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, Mayor Marvin Rees appoints the We Are Bristol History Commission to ensure that a fully inclusive story of the city is made available to the public
- 2021, We are Bristol History Commission public consultation
- 2021, Display of Colston statue in M Shed
- 2021, Kill the Bill protest in Bristol
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2022, Acquittal of the Colston Four by Bristol Crown Court After a highly publicised trial of nine days, Jake Skuse 33, Rhian Graham, 30, Milo Ponsford, 26, and Sage Willoughby, 22 were found 'not guilty' of criminal damage by the jury at Bristol Crown Court.
- 2022, Publication of the Project T.R.U.T.H report