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Significance of the Jewel Tower
The Jewel Tower is important principally as a rare survival of the medieval Palace of Westminster and is remarkable for its 14th-century architecture.
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Blue Plaque commemorating creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, at 22 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 8LW, City of Westminster.
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10 LESSER-KNOWN INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN FROM HISTORY: PART TWO
The eagerly awaited second half of Sam Kinchin-Smith’s rundown of some of the most inspiring women from the histories of our places includes a philosopher, a royal mistress and the architect of the modern state of Iraq.
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Missing Piece of Stonehenge Returned
A piece of one of the enormous sarsen stones at Stonehenge has been returned to the ancient monument, English Heritage announced today (8 May). The prehistoric stone ‘core’ was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958 and its existence remained largely unknown for the next 60 years. The core will now join English Heritage’s collection of more than 500,000 artefacts and may help to uncover the source of the stones that form the instantly recognisable trilithons and outer circle of Stonehenge.
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Blue Plaque commemorating singer Freddie Mercury at 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, London TW14 9LL, London Borough of Hounslow.
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Blue Plaque commemorating composer Herbert Howells at 3 Beverley Close, Barnes, Barnes SW13 0EH, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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LIND, Jenny (1820-1887) a.k.a. Madame Goldschmidt
Blue Plaque commemorating Jenny 'Madame Goldschmidt' Lind at 189 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW5 OBA, Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Marie Stopes was at the forefront of the campaigns for sex education and birth control in the 1920s and 1930s.