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Blue Plaque commemorating the first President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah at 60 Burghley Road, Kentish Town, London NW5 1UN, London Borough of Camden.
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HANDEL, George Frideric (1685-1759)
Blue Plaque commemorating composer George Frideric Handel at 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HB, City of Westminster.
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Previous Exhibition - Stonehenge: Monumental Journey
This opening exhibition at the Quadriga Gallery showed how Stonehenge has been experienced over time and how it will be reconnected with the wider landscape.
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In the Victorian period the growth of the railway network made it possible to transport food from the countryside to urban markets much more easily, greatly improving the quality of produce available there. But there was still no cure for most diseases, and life expectancy remained stubbornly low.
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Victorians: Power and Politics
Although England in the late 1830s was still ruled by a propertied upper class, there had long been a degree of social mobility. It was enough, at least, for Britain, unlike its continental neighbours, to ward off revolution.
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Victorian Britain was both the greatest power in the world and the least militarised, with a standing army far smaller and less influential in public life than those of France, Prussia, Austria or Russia. Its military shortcomings were starkly revealed by the disastrous Crimean War (1854–6) and Boer Wars (1880–81 and 1899–1902).
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Stonehenge is a masterpiece of engineering. How did Neolithic people build it using only the simple tools and technologies available to them?
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ARCHER, John Richard (1863-1932)
Blue Plaque commemorating civic leader and pan-Africanist John Richard Archer at 55 Brynmaer Road, Battersea, London SW11 4EN, London Borough of Wandsworth
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BUSS, Frances Mary (1827-1894)
Blue Plaque commemorating headmistress Frances Mary Buss at Camden School for Girls, Sandall Road, Kentish Town, London NW5 2DB, London Borough of Camden.
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BUSS, Frances Mary (1827-1894)
Blue Plaque commemorating headmistress Frances Mary Buss at Camden School for Girls, Sandall Road, Kentish Town, London NW5 2DB, London Borough of Camden.