57:26 - British Museum removes statue of slave-owning founder:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/25/british-museum-removes-founder-hans-sloane-statue-over-slavery-links? New Statue Context: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3362294473818000&id=169284376452375
Museum felt ‘Extremely Compromised’ by Minister’s Plea to Keep Slave Trader Statue:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/museum-of-the-home-robert-geffrye-statue_uk_5f480bb2c5b6cf66b2b4ed4c?
Bonnie Greer Interview:
https://youtu.be/u0CcdkFFv7M
In defence of Hans Sloane:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-hans-sloane?
The Little-Known Role of Slavery in Viking Society:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/little-known-role-slavery-viking-society-180975597/
01:22:12 - National Trust restructuring plans are ‘one of the most damaging assaults on art historical expertise ever seen in the UK’:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/national-trust-restructuring-plan-job-cuts?
The trendies have destroyed the National Trust:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-trendies-have-destroyed-the-national-trust? Is the National Trust turning into a National Joke?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8652387/Is-National-Trust-turning-national-joke-GUY-ADAMS-investigates.html?
Oxburgh Hall: Thousands of ‘rare items’ found in attic:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-53804700?
Amazing secrets found under National Trust manor house’s floorboards:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/heritage/oxburgh-hall-norfolk-discovery-under-floorboards-1-6796085?
01:58:09 – Muppet of the Month
Trump erroneously says 1918 Spanish Flu ‘probably ended’ WWII, which happened two decades later: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/10/trump-1918-spanish-flu-probably-ended-wwii-which-happened-two-decades-apart/3340770001/ soupgate Tweet: https://twitter.com/Archaeos0up/status/1301143528605655041?s=20 The Atlantic Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1301642301656137730?s=19&fbclid=IwAR3gg9GI8Y9QKJwKMk_5sxYq3ZBhIZDyynVQNI65ef9e9rT3KT1KnZtISXU Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ White House attacks 'false' Atlantic story about Trump insulting dead soldiers: 'What a disgrace!': https://www.foxnews.com/media/atlantic-story-trump-dead-soldiers?
02:20:44 – Media Picks:
Mortal Engines (2018): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571234/