Imperial Misdemeanours

Earlier this month the President’s Board at Imperial College convened to decide what to do with the recommendations of their History Group, which was commissioned by the President Alice Gast and Provost Ian Walmsley, to examine the university’s history “through its links to the British Empire”. The most striking recommendation is that the founder of Imperial College, T H Huxley, be “cancelled”, with the Group proposing removing his name from a building and consigning the famous terracotta bust of him to a cupboard.