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Six new blue plaques for women
1 April 2021 – The crystallographer and peace campaigner, Kathleen Lonsdale has today been celebrated with an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, on the 50th anniversary of her death. Kathleen Lonsdale is the first of six illustrious women to be commemorated by English Heritage with a London Blue Plaque in 2021. Other recipients include social reformer Caroline Norton, designer Jean Muir, former slave and campaigner Ellen Craft, barrister Helena Normanton and Diana, Princess of Wales.
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English Heritage announces six more blue plaques to women for 2021
1 April 2021 – The crystallographer and peace campaigner, Kathleen Lonsdale has today been celebrated with an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, on the 50th anniversary of her death. Kathleen Lonsdale is the first of six illustrious women to be commemorated by English Heritage with a London Blue Plaque in 2021. Other recipients include social reformer Caroline Norton, designer Jean Muir, former slave and campaigner Ellen Craft, barrister Helena Normanton and Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Blue Plaque for lawyer who enshrined ‘war crimes’ in international law
The lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht, who played a key role in prosecuting the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials and whose belief that sovereign states should be held accountable for crimes against their own people led to lasting change in international law, has been commemorated with a blue plaque at his former home in Cricklewood, north west London.
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Stonehenge and the A303 - Consultation Response
English Heritage, Historic England and the National Trust respond to the proposed A303 Stonehenge tunnel.
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Tintagel Castle - Winner of new bridge competition announced
A breath-taking proposal for a footbridge at Tintagel Castle has helped a team led by Ney & Partners Civil Engineers and William Matthews Associates to win the competition to design a new bridge for the Cornish site, English Heritage announced today (23 March 2016).
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Blue plaque commemorating writer PG Wodehouse at 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London W1K 7EG, City of Westminster.
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Blue plaque commemorating writer PG Wodehouse at 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London W1K 7EG, City of Westminster.
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NEVINSON, CRW (1889-1946) & NEVINSON, Henry (1856-1941)
Blue Plaque commemorating Artist and Journalists Henry Nevinson and his son CRW Nevinson at 4 Downside Crescent, Hampstead, London NW3 2AP, London Borough of Camden.
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WOLFE BARRY, Sir John (1836-1918)
Blue plaque commemorating the civil engineer, Sir John Wolfe Barry, at his former home at Delahay House, 15 Chelsea Embankment, London, SW3 4LA, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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CRAFT, Ellen (c.1826-c.1891) & CRAFT, William (c.1824-1900)
Ellen and William Craft were African American freedom fighters who made a daring escape from enslavement in Georgia, and in 1851 fled to Britain, where they supported anti-slavery efforts.