Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Britain's cultural custodians have certainly been at it, reducing canonical English writers to vehicles of racism and imperialism.

In March 2025, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust announced it was decolonialising the home of the world's most famous poet and playwright in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The museum has since been transformed into a melancholy shrine apologising for the use of Shakespeare as a symbol of British cultural superiority.

Visitors are told to understand him as just one part of a community of equal and different writers and artists from all over the world.

destroyed.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust brought in the English horticulturist Ellen Wilmot to put it back.

She drew the garden up across two seasons, 1924 and 1925, leaned into pastel shades, and a great many of the plants she chose are named in Shakespeare's plays.

Roses, irises, daffodils, thistles.