Parliament Square

The green in front of Parliament is an open-air argument about who counts in British history, and it is free at any hour. The statues include Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, which makes it a good place to talk about how Britain's view of itself and its empire has shifted. Look for Millicent Fawcett, unveiled in 2018 for the centenary of some women winning the vote. Gillian Wearing's bronze was the first statue of a woman in the square, joining 11 statues of men, and the first by a woman sculptor. Fawcett holds a banner reading "Courage calls to courage everywhere," a line from one of her speeches and a fitting thought to carry across the road into Parliament.