2020-06-07 (Sunday)
Writing
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w/e 2020-06-07
More wildlife, moving websites, The Crown season three.
Links
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Walton Secondary School 1950/60s films by Lou Broom | Walton Tales
These are quite charming and a bit “folk horror”. Probably best to turn the sound off.
Liked tweets
If you're saying the statues should remain in place to help educate, at school I managed to learn long division without there being a fucking statue of it in the middle of a city
#Bristol statue of Edward Colston has been pulled down and pushed into the harbour during the #BlackLivesMattter march
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The statue is being dragged towards the harbour
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
putting statues up is history; pulling them down makes more history. fans of history as an abstract concept need not worry. there is now more of it.
Historic scenes in Bristol as protesters kneel on the neck of the toppled statue of Edward Colston for eight minutes. #blacklivesmatter
Edward Colston statue pulled down by BLM protesters in Bristol. Colston was a 17th century slave trader who has numerous landmarks named after him in Bristol. #BlackLivesMattters #blmbristol #ukprotests