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?

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