Slave owner bust removed from British Museum

Sir Hans Sloane, a founder of the collection within the British Museum, has had his bust removed due to his connections with slavery.

The museum has said that it wanted to confront its links to colonialism including Sloane's collection being funded by enslaved labour in sugar plantations in Jamaica.

The bust of the Irish collector and slave owner has been placed in a cabinet with artefacts detailing his work within the British empire, according to the director, Hartwig Fischer.

Curators of the museum have said that the decision comes as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests that have gripped the world since George Floyd's death in May.

Despite this, Sloane's name is still honoured in a number of places such as London's Sloane Square.

Back in June, protests in Bristol removed a statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader.