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Major arts and heritage organisations face a dressing down over allegedly trying to "airbrush" Britain's history.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Heritage Minister Nigel Huddleston have called 25 of the UK's biggest heritage charities, museums and art galleries to a meeting Tuesday, The Telegraph reports.

Leader of the National Trust, Historic England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, and sponsored museums will be warned to heed the Government's "retain and explain" approach towards heritage.

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Dowden is reportedly concerned after a Historic England review said villages were "part of the transatlantic slavery economy" and a 'Colonia Countryside' review investigated historic links between the National Trust and slavery.

The Government also plans to announce a 'Free Speech Champion' to defend free speech at universities and fine those that try to dismiss or demote people for expressing their views.