London Socialist Historians Group
13th March
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Historians back Black Lives Matter display at National Museum of Wales that Farage wants to cancel
The London Socialist Historians Group, which organises the socialist history seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, has backed the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, in its decision to display posters and placards from Black Lives Matter protests.
Hard right politician Nigel Farage has criticised the display on his GB News programme claiming that BLM want to defund the police and in the US is ‘violent’.
The historians say that the St Fagans Museum deserves support for collecting and displaying the ephemera of Black Lives Matter protests. Too often such material is overlooked and means that not only important events are not captured historically but that future generations might not be able to obtain a full understanding of the ideas that motivated protests and how these were expressed.
LSHG Convenor Dr Keith Flett said, it is ironic but not surprising that Nigel Farage who complains a lot about people and ideas being ‘cancelled’ that he is now arguing for something he doesn’t like to be cancelled. The National Museum of Wales deserves support over its decision to display BLM materials.
BBC News report
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