The steam engine pioneer, who died in 1819, was a key figure in the Industrial Revolution and was honoured with a gilded statue with colleagues Matthew Boulton and William Murdoch.
The Museum of Home was formerly known as the Geffrye Museum after Sir Robert Geffrye, a slave ship owner who funded the almshouses that now house the attraction.
So much for gratitude! Student who cancelled the Queen is a visiting AMERICAN: Post grad from Stanford tabled motion to take down royal portrait at Oxford s Magdalen College - as it emerges only TEN out of 250 voted to remove it
Move to remove photographic print passed by Magdalen College s Middle Common Room by large majority
Computer science lecturer Matthew Katzman, 25, tables all MCR motions as part of his role as president
Told MailOnline print was being removed to create a welcoming, neutral place. regardless of background
Sparked an immediate backlash from ministers and Tory MPs, with Queen hailed as a pioneer of anti-racism
Some artefacts with links to slavery are set to be removed from churches in light of new guidance for parishes following the Black Lives Matter movement.
New Church of England guidance, published today, urges churches and cathedrals to consider the history of their buildings and the physical artefacts and how it could impact their congregations worship.
Churches that have already taken action include St Margaret s church in Rottingdean, Sussex, which has removed two deeply offensive grave headstones which contained racial slurs.
St Peter s Church in Dorchester has also covered a plaque commemorating a plantation owner.
And dedications to slave trader Edward Colston were removed from Bristol Cathedral last year.