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M Shed tickets block-booked in attempt to prevent people seeing Colston statue

By Martin Booth  Sunday Jun 6, 2021

People unhappy that the Colston statue has not been put back on its plinth are block-booking tickets to the M Shed in an attempt to try to prevent people from visiting the new display at the museum.

The campaign is being led by Save Our Statues, a group who “run confident, high-impact political, educational and legal actions to save our country’s illustrious cultural heritage”.

Bristol24/7 understands that a virtual 3D version of the displayed Colston statue is going to be online soon.

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https://twitter.com/_SaveOurStatues/status/1401141838019452929

UWE professor, Dr Shawn Sobers, a member of the We Are Bristol History Commission, tweeted: “See how the Reactionaries are trying to stop anyone seeing the Colston display at @mshedbristol.

“It’s too much for them that in a democratic society, people can choose to visit it for themselves and see the wider history, rather than the narrow narrative from the Colston Cult.”

Katie Donington, a historian at London’s South Bank University, tweeted: “So let me get this straight – the same people who took 2 the streets 2 demand we preserve & protect statues so that the public can engage with history are now block booking tickets so that people can’t visit their local museum 2 view a statue & engage with history. I just can’t…”

Bristol City Council has been approached for a comment.

Main photo: Martin Booth

Read more: ‘I helped drag Colston’s statue into the water’

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