Museums shouldn’t be bullied by left-wing campaign groups into removing statues and rewriting history, UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said. Dowden highlighted the risk of museums being “pushed around by unrepresentative campaign groups, principally from the left.” These left-wing groups “put bullying pressure on institutions to rapidly change their approach, to remove our history, to remove items and statues and so on, in a very short-termist way,” he said on March 2 at the History Matters conference organized by Policy Exchange, a London-based center-right think tank. “I think that that is a danger that needs to be guarded against, because it can take generations to build history and heritage, and it can take just a few short-termist decisions to remove it and to remove it for good.” Dowden said that the left has been applying pressure on cultural institutions “quietly, for years.” He said he had talked to institutions “who …
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