Since 2016 controversy has surrounded the statue of Cecil Rhodes on the façade of his alma mater Oriel College, Oxford. Born in 1853, Rhodes was a financier, politician and empire builder of British South Africa and was regarded as a white supremacist. Protesters have campaigned for the removal of the statue because of Rhodes’s views on empire and race, with one suggestion that it should be turned to face the wall. Two years ago Oriel installed an explanatory noticeboard attached to railings describing Rhodes as a “committed British colonialist” who exploited “the minerals, lands and peoples of southern Africa”. Rhodes...