Merseyside – the home of Roger McGough, Willy Russell and the Beatles. But it seems that despite the area’s reputation as a hotbed of the arts, not all Liverpool’s institutions of higher learning are too keen on resisting the tide of iconoclasm sweeping through Britain’s universities.

For in the aftermath of the protests which followed George Floyd’s murder last year, institutes across the UK faced demands to remove busts, paintings and statues accused of glorifying imperialism or slavery.