The allegations of association with slavery have been grossly exaggerated and even wrong and some of the information in the article in just plain distorted. Pirates for example were not slavers and operated on almost every sea trade route. Just look at those who operated in the Indian ocean and beyond. For Bobo’s sake, even poor little Jane Austen got roped in because her father was trustee of an estate in the WI though he never went there nor had any hand in the running or management of the place.
And the allegations made against Nelson… rubbish through and through.
Simply because a piece of wood used in a chair came from a colony somewhere did not make it slavery related, for example. This example is taken from a very stupid notice next to a Hogarth work in the current Tate exhibition.
This does not mean that there were not people like Picton, Hawkins, Drake who should be called out, though simply suppressing their memory is not the answer; educate, educate however is.

But let us also look carefully at the motives of those who are doing all the shouting!

I would have to question the aims of the patriotic alternative before believing what they publish

They seem to take their inspiration from the American far right.

No need apologise, I had never heard of them and was curious as to who they were.I'm still disappointed when I read crap by people who should know better.

You only need read the first sentence to understand the total bollocks that's coming next.

And grown people, some of them not on drugs, believe this rubbish.

Don’t delete history, learn from it