London’s Other Monuments: Empire and Post-Empire in the Metropolis

This course introduces you to how empire is shaped and represented in London’s public spaces, both concerning the official monuments of empire and in terms of anti- or post-colonial re-imaginings of the place of the monument in London.

It looks at:

• monuments gifted to Britain and then subject to new contexts designed for them
• the continuing urban presence of imperial set pieces
• the remains or fragments of colonial exhibitions
• buildings and monuments associated with anti-colonial figures and movements and
• post-imperial immigration and its urban and public art forms