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Blue Plaque commemorating author Kenneth Grahame at 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park, London W8 7BU, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue Plaque commemorating locomotive engineer Sir Nigel Gresley at King's Cross Station, London N1 9AG, London Borough of Camden.
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Blue Plaque commemorating essayist William Hazlitt at 6 Frith Street, Soho, London W1D 3JA, City of Westminster.
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HOLMAN-HUNT, William, O.M. (1827-1910)
Blue Plaque commemorating painter William Holman-Hunt at 18 Melbury Road, Holland Park, London W14 8LT, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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LYELL, Sir Charles (1797–1875) & GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809–1898)
73 Harley Street, Marylebone, was home to geologist Sir Charles Lyell and later to statesman William Ewart Gladstone. Both are commemorated there with a blue plaque.
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Tommy Flowers was an electrical engineer who designed, and led the team that built, the pioneering Colossus computer used to decipher German codes at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. English Heritage have commemorated him with a blue plaque at the former Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.
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Black People in Late 18th-century Britain
How much do we know about black people living in Britain in the late 18th century?
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History of Aldborough Roman Site
Aldborough was once the prosperous Roman town of Isurium Brigantum, which began as a trading settlement around AD 70, and became the civilian ‘capital’ of an extensive region of north Britain from about AD 120 to about AD 400.
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Britain was one of some 44 provinces which made up the Roman Empire at its height in the early 2nd century AD.
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Most people in Roman Britain made their livings from a mixture of subsistence farming and exchange of specialist goods (like salt or milling stones) with neighbours or more distant communities.