Marcus Rutherford

Marcus Rutherford is writing a book about the men who took part in Stanley’s last and most disastrous expedition, to rescue a half blind German collector of natural history who had become stranded in central Africa

Should Henry Morton Stanley’s statue be pulled down?

From our UK edition

Should Stanley fall? Debate is raging over whether a statue of the Victorian explorer Henry Morton Stanley, which was erected in his home town of Denbigh in Wales a few years ago, should be pulled down because of his racist views. Stanley is, of course, best known for the four words he uttered when he