Museum of the Home review – home discomforts

London E2
An £18.1m makeover of the Geffrye Museum updates its lively chronology of domestic interiors to show the messier side of home life, but the building’s slave trader statue remains…You know the argument: removing statues of slave traders is “erasing history”, whereas retaining them in places of honour is not. Never mind that most of us, in the year since Edward Colston was pitched into Bristol harbour, have learned more about Britain and slavery than we eve