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The National Maritime Museum, part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Photo: Katie Chan via Wikimedia Commons
Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) in London is the latest UK institution embroiled in a so-called “culture war” after the government allegedly blocked a trustee appointment, prompting the museums’ chair of trustees to resign.
According to the
Financial Times, Sir Charles Dunstone, the billionaire founder of Carphone Warehouse, stepped down from the RMG board earlier this year after Oliver Dowden, the UK culture secretary, refused to renew the term of Aminul Hoque, a Bangladeshi-British lecturer at Goldsmiths college, University of London. Hoque was reportedly rejected because of his focus on “decolonisation”.
The billionaire founder of Carphone Warehouse has quit as chairman of a prestigious museum group in protest at a ‘culture war’ being waged in British institutions.
Sir Charles Dunstone resigned from the board of Royal Museums Greenwich after Ministers refused to reappoint a trustee whose academic work encourages ‘decolonising’ the curriculum.
It comes as Boris Johnson’s administration seeks to reset the balance of opinion at the top of Britain’s cultural and media institutions, often through greater involvement in board appointments.
Sir Charles Dunstone resigned from the board of Royal Museums Greenwich after Ministers refused to reappoint a trustee whose academic work encourages ‘decolonising’ the curriculum