A politics lecturer has hit out at Liverpool University s plans to drop the name of former Prime Minister William Gladstone from a building because of his family s links to the slave trade.
The university emailed staff on Tuesday confirming that the plans to rename the Gladstone Hall student accommodation building, which were initially announced in June, are set to go ahead.
They said the decision was being made because of the strength of feeling evoked in our student community by the Gladstone family s historic ownership of enslaved people, and their profiting from the transatlantic trade in enslaved people .
But the move was slammed by university employee Dr David Jeffery, an expert on the history of Liverpool, who said on Twitter that Gladstone was one of Britain s greatest Prime Ministers.
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