Nottingham City Council announced a review of statues and street names in 2020 in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement
The council covering Nottingham has revealed a 2020 review into the links that its street names may have had with the slave trade did not cover the whole city. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the discussions it provoked around the way in which historical figures were remembered, Nottingham City Council said in 2020 that a review would take place into statues and street names in the area.
Councillor Pavlos Kotsonis, portfolio holder for leisure, culture and planning at the council, said: "In 2020 a review of any links that local street names and statues may have with the slave trade was undertaken on our behalf by the University of Nottingham. The focus of the review was statues, while in terms of street names it was not intended to cover the whole city but to inform our understanding of the historical connotations and associations around some street names.
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