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Blue Plaque commemorating actor David Garrick at Garrick's Villa, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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The trailblazing female barrister and champion of women’s rights, Helena Normanton, has today been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque. Erected almost 100 years after she passed her Bar finals (on 26 October 1921), the plaque marks 22 Mecklenburgh Square, Normanton’s home from 1919 to 1931, the period when she was forging her legal career. Whilst living there, she funded her training and supplemented her income by letting rooms in the large property.
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Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, 21 June 2023
English Heritage was delighted to welcome around 8,000 people to Stonehenge this morning to celebrate the Summer Solstice sunrise – with approximately 154,000 people tuning-in from across the world to watch the sunset and sunrise on the charity’s livestream.
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Photographer Christina Broom, whose photojournalism captured London, the military, the suffrage movement, and royalty, is commemorated with a blue plaque at 92 Munster Road, London.
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Wellington, Women & Friendship Exhibition
The Wellington, Women & Friendship exhibition explores the relationships between the 1st Duke of Wellington, his wife Kitty and other women who were close to him.
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Wigmore has an overgrown appearance that once characterised many ruined sites, but it is still possible to recreate much of the castle's original arrangement
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IRVING, Washington (1783-1859)
Blue Plaque commemorating American writer Washington Irving at 8 Argyll Street, Soho, London W1F 7TF, City of Westminster.
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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 actor David Garrick at Garrick's Villa, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.