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Blue Plaque commemorating artist and illustrator Audrey Beardsley at 114 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, London SW1V 4QF, City of Westminster.
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BRITTEN, Benjamin, O.M. (1913-1976)
Blue Plaque commemorating composer Benjamin Britten at 173 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW5 0SE, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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STEPHEN, Sir Leslie (1832-1904)
Blue Plaque commemorating scholar Sir Leslie Stephen at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London SW7 5DH, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue plaque for Barbara Pym's Pimlico home
The home that saw the beginnings of the celebrated novelist’s literary career is to be marked with a new plaque
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Blue Plaque for Churchill’s Favourite Spy
English Heritage has unveiled a blue plaque to Christine Granville, the Polish Second World War special agent who Winston Churchill once called his 'favourite spy'
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18th Century Anti-Slavery Campaigner awarded English Heritage blue plaque
The anti-slavery campaigner Ottobah Cugoano has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque marks Schomberg House at 80–82 Pall Mall, where Cugoano, a former slave himself, was employed as a servant by artists Richard and Maria Cosway. It was while living here in the 1780s that Cugoano wrote the book, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, one of the first black-authored anti-slavery books to be published in Britain, and – of its era – the most radical in its arguments.
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New exhibitions mark 200th anniversary of Battle of Waterloo
The Duke of Wellington's handwritten orders from the Battle of Waterloo, his battle sword, and a pair of original 'Wellington Boots' are among the objects that will go on display in two new exhibitions this year. They will be held at Wellington Arch and Apsley House, the two central London properties associated with the battle and its victorious commander.
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Jean Muir, dressmaker and fashion designer, celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaque
A blue plaque honouring Jean Muir, the celebrated dressmaker and fashion designer, has been unveiled by her house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley.
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A section of the two-mile long wall built between AD 265 and 270 to defend the Roman city of Verulamium: including the foundations of towers and the London Gate.
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‘The Guitar Player’, part of the Iveagh Bequest on display at Kenwood, London, is one of Vermeer’s late works. Here we take an in-depth look at what technical analysis is beginning to tell us about the painting and about its relationship with a similar painting in the John G Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.