Tributes to slave traders and colonialists removed across UK

Exclusive: almost 70 memorials renamed or being taken down since last summers Black Lives Matter protests

• The reckoning: the toppling of monuments to slavery in the UK

Scores of tributes to slave traders, colonialists and racists have been taken down or will be removed across the UK, a Guardian investigation has found, with hundreds of others under review by local authorities and institutions.

In what was described by historians as an unprecedented" public reckoning with Britain's slavery and colonial past, an estimated 39 names - including streets, buildings and schools - and 30 statues, plaques and other memorials have been or are undergoing changes or removal since last summer's Black Lives Matter protests.