Glasgow’s George Square was laid out in 1781 and the statues, erected between 1819 and 1902, are designed to celebrate scientists, writers, military figures, politicians and royals. But these sculptures largely tell a sanitised story of city, national and imperial development.
Dr. Michael Morris’s walk and talk looks to highlight a more difficult context and to provide a counter-narrative to this cleaned up history. Join him as he uses the statues to reveal a hidden history of Scotland’s complicated involvement in slavery and abolition associated with every one of the statues on display.
