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Blue Plaque commemorating Shakespearian actor Ira Aldridge at 5 Hamlet Road, Upper Norwood, London SE19 2AP, London Borough of Bromley.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey at 53 Talgarth Road, Barons Court, London W14 9DD, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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MILNER, Alfred, Lord Milner (1854-1925)
Blue plaque commemorating Alfred Milner, Lord Milner, at 14 Manchester Square, Marylebone, London W1U 3PP.
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A brief history of London’s blue plaques scheme, at 150 years old the longest running scheme of its kind in the world.
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A list of the most important sources for the study of the Meare Fish House.
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Blue plaque commemorating the traveller, archaeologist and diplomat Gertrude Bell, at her former home at 95 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9PQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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A.V. Hill, Nobel Prize winner & sports medicine pioneer, receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
A.V. Hill (1886-1977), one of the founding fathers of sports medicine and the first Briton to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology, has been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at his former home in Highgate, North London. In addition to his work within the field of physiology, he was a highly respected independent MP during the Second World War and a humanitarian – he helped over nine hundred academics escape persecution by the Nazis.
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First Indian to win a popular election to the UK Parliament receives Blue Plaque
English Heritage has today (10 August 2022) unveiled a blue plaque dedicated to Dadabhai Naoroji, an Indian Nationalist and the first Indian to win a popular election to Parliament in the UK. Dubbed the ‘grand old man of India’ and described in his Times obituary as ‘the father of Indian Nationalism’, Naoroji made seven trips to England, and spent over three decades of his long life in London. His plaque marks the red-bricked semi-detached house in Penge, south London, that was his home around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Champion for women's education and Indian independence receives blue plaque
The London home of Margaret Noble, or Sister Nivedita as she was known, has been commemorated with a new blue plaque
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A list of the main sources for our knowledge and understanding of Wellington Arch