This week we discuss the politics of commemoration by questioning how history can be contested, what are the importance of statues, and what does it mean to decolonise a landscape. We interview Dr Simon Sleight, KCL Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History, to provide some answers. Lauren Fernandes, President of the Decolonise KCL Society at King's College London, is also interviewed to explain what it means to decolonise an institution.