The Rhodes statue at Oriel College, Oxford, which has been targeted by activistsIn the newsroom of The Times, amid a gallery of the paper’s notable writers, past and present, there is a photograph of a woman in a Victorian black silk dress, draped in furs. Her gaze is direct and challenging. She was the first Colonial Editor of The Times, appointed the first full-time woman staff correspondent on any newspaper in 1892, a female pioneer in a male-dominated profession, a successful novelist, an intrepid foreign correspondent and a crusading journalist. One of her more remarkable achievements was to name an entire country: Nigeria. SponsoredHowever she was also a fervent and evangelising imperialist, a conspirator in one of worst fiascos in British imperial history,

Source: The Times May 21, 2021 16:06 UTC