Government strategy underscores controversial monuments should stay in place, a move criticised by some culture professionals

If ever a ticket price reflected British history it is for this royal church, where the nation’s great and good are commemorated in profusion

The decision to take down historic William Beckford and John Cass sculptures could go against new UK government policy

History can teach us a lot about how to—and how not to—deal with problematic historic monuments

Conservation treatment may resolve conflicting accounts of monument's history

Mehmet Aksoy's Monument to Humanity was razed by local council after Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it a "monstrosity"

The statue stood in Lenin Square until 1990, when it was cut into 129 pieces and buried in the woods

The sculpture was famously attacked by Parliamentarians shortly after the outbreak of the English Civil War

The family is objecting to the "extravagant" scheme

Artist Nico Widerberg’s sculptures welcomed by many, but the way an anonymous donor is funding them upsets others

They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated

Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis

More than 4,000 people have signed a petition to appoint an African American architect and artist for the monument

Officials feared the sculpture, which depicts the national saint slaying a Moor, would offend Muslims

It has taken almost 60 years to commemorate the 400,000 American soldiers who died in the conflict

We take stock of the mania for commemoration that has overtaken New York and Washington, DC

Public outcry scuppered Helsinki officials' plan to buy granite bust of the Communist leader

Parliament has finally voted to build Berlin's memorial to the Holocaust

The US architect's new building for ancient Roman monument to replace one commissioned by the Fascist dictator in the 1930s

The most important outdoor sculpture of this century has been ravaged by rust, pollution, politics and conservation debates

The act is part of a considerable effort to erase Mussolini’s mark on the nation

Budapest is creating a sculpture park for more than 45 works depicting Lenin, Marx and others

Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed

New book "The Monument" explains why greater attention to the Iraqi director’s iconography might have illuminated Western politicians as to his ambitions

Are these acts a citizens’ protest against the situation in which the country now finds itself, or are they merely vandalism?