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Ada Salter was a social reformer, environmental improver and local politician who in 1922 became Mayor of Bermondsey. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 149 Lower Road, Rotherhithe, where she lived in the late 1890s.
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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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The 19th century women’s rights campaigner, Caroline Norton, has today been commemorated by English Heritage with a London Blue Plaque. The charity’s plaque will adorn 3 Chesterfield Street, the Mayfair townhouse from where Norton fought for the rights to own the proceeds of her own work as a writer, as a married woman.
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Jean Muir, dressmaker and fashion designer, celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaque
An English Heritage London blue plaque to Jean Muir, the celebrated dressmaker and fashion designer, has today been unveiled by her house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley. The plaque marks 22 Bruton Street in Mayfair, the address of the Jean Muir Ltd showroom and office where the designer worked for almost 30 years, from 1966 until her death in 1995.
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Spotlight on Reynolds : London display marks 300th anniversary of renowned artist
Seventeen paintings by Joshua Reynolds go on display, from one of his earliest portraits to the last painting he completed before his death
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Traces of the Transatlantic Slave Economy in the National Heritage Collection
From plantation owners to pro- and anti-abolitionists, from investors in trading companies to colonial administrators, examples can be found across the National Heritage Collection that show the extent of transatlantic slavery’s presence in British society.
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Howard Staunton is considered to be the first and only British-born world chess champion. A significant chess writer as well as player, he helped change the game from a leisure activity to a competitive sport.
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JOHNSON, Dr Samuel (1709-1784)
Blue Plaque commemorating author Dr. Samuel Johnson at Dr Johnson's House, Gough Square, Holborn, London EC4A 3DE.
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TAGORE, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
Blue Plaque commemorating poet Rabindranath Tagore at 3 Villas on the Heath, Vale of Health, Hampstead, London NW3 1BA, London Borough of Camden.