The academic behind the National Trust s Woke review to identify properties with links to colonialism today astonishingly accused the government of weaponising history by trying to stop Left-wing academics denigrating Britain s past.
The study, which blacklisted - among others - the Lake District home of avid anti-slaver William Wordsworth because his brother was involved in the trade, was accused of re-writing history after assembling a team of left-wing and politically biased experts.
Its leader, Professor Corinne Fowler, spoke today as Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden prepared to use a meeting with 25 heritage organisations to urge them to adopt a rounded view of Britain s past that does not focus excessively on the empire.
Marco Longhi (Dudley North) asked the Government to review allocations by the Culture Recovery Fund
Cultural projects run by people who hate our history and seek to rewrite it should be barred from receiving taxpayers support, a Tory MP said today.
Marco Longhi, MP for Dudley North, asked the Government to review allocations by the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, which will give money to heritage groups, museums and other venues to help them recover from coronavirus.
Mr Longhi told MailOnline he was concerned about recent attempts to re-evaluate history - such as the National Maritime Museum s bid to challenge Lord Horatio Nelson s hero status and the National Trust s colonial countryside project.
The project was carried out by University of Leicester with National Trust funds
It received a grant of £99,600 from the National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund through the National Trust and a further £60,000 from the Arts Council
The project linked almost 100 National Trust properties to British colonialism
A group of Tory MPs have written to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden for an explanation to why the project was given the funds
Graveyard of the Atlantic reveals multiple shipwrecks at once on Outer Banks island Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer
Jan. 20 Three shipwrecks have emerged simultaneously on Hatteras beaches, something locals say is rare on the Outer Banks island.
Photos of the three ships skeletal timbers began showing up on the Shipwrecks Of The Outer Banks Facebook page last week, a site devoted to tales of the Graveyard of the Atlantic, located off North Carolina.
The shipwrecks include the Flambeau, the George A. Kohler, and another often called the Ramp 55 wreck, because it sits a half mile south of that ramp.
Passing storms are often credited with uncovering shipwrecks, but not in this case.
Colonial Countryside projects looks into links of 11 trust properties to slave trade Child advisory boards set up to assist the trust s staff with their training so they can explain the ties of their properties to slave trade and British empire
The project involves nine historians working with 100 primary school children
Last month, the trust was accused of bias over the team of historians it hired