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Statue of Edward Colston has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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October 14, 2020	Good article nominee	Not listed
October 30, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed

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"Edward Colston and Bristol" (PDF).
Keener, Katherine (9 June 2020). "Banksy's proposal on what to do with Bristol's toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston". Art Critique.
"Myths within myths..." Bristol Radical History Group.
"What Colston's statue says about Victorian Bristol". Apollo Magazine. 18 June 2020.

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