British Monuments Related to Slavery

British Monuments Related to Slavery is an interactive map of public statues in the United Kingdom with connections to the transatlantic slave trade. Led by Dr Gavin Grindon, the project has created a new dataset exploring the links between Britain’s colonial history and the contemporary built environment.

Role

Research, GIS, additional data processing and programming.

Collaborators

• Dr. Gavin Grindon, University of Essex/Queen Mary University London
• Jennie Williams, University College London

Outputs

• Gavin Grindon, Jennie Williams and Duncan Hay, ‘Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery’
• Gavin Grindon and Duncan Hay, ‘Seeing Culture from Below: Counter-curating, counter-ethnography, counter-mapping’