‘Liverpool is built on transatlantic slavery’: how city’s museums are tackling race issues

Laura Pye, director of National Museums Liverpool, describes impact of BLM movement on staff

A year ago, Laura Pye would have said that she had been a champion of diversity throughout her career. And then George Floyd's murder sparked a movement that took hold in the UK on an unprecedented scale.

I would have said that I was anti-racist before, but I never understood the scale of racism and what that looks like on a daily basis in some parts of our society until the last 12 months," she said.