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THORNDIKE, Dame Sybil (1882-1976)
Blue Plaque commemorating actress Dame Sybil Thorndike at 6 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, London SW3 6EX, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Angela Carter receives English Heritage blue plaque
English Heritage has commemorated the legacy of award winning novelist Angela Carter with a blue plaque at her former home in Clapham. It was at this house, 107, The Chase, that Carter spent the last sixteen years of her life. She often tutored her then student, Kazuo Ishiguro, at the kitchen table and received fellow writers – J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie – as guests.
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Hild is a significant figure in the history of English Christianity. As the abbess of Whitby – a monastery for both men and women – she led one of the most important religious centres in the Anglo-Saxon world.
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Blue Plaque commemorating pioneer of modern nursing and Great War heroine Edith Cavell at London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB.
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JOHNSON, Dame Celia (1908-1982)
Blue Plaque commemorating actress Dame Celia Johnson at 46 Richmond Hill, Richmond, London TW10 4QX, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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Queen Victoria's Hindustani Diary on Display for the First Time
A diary showing how Queen Victoria learned to write Hindustani under the tutelage of her Indian servant Abdul Karim will go on display to the public for the very first time at Osborne, her Isle of Wight home, English Heritage announced today (Friday 15 September).
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For over 100 years, Annie Wainwright’s pencil-drawn face has looked out from the walls of a military cell at Richmond Castle. Read about the woman portrayed in the best-known and most reproduced of all 2,300 graffiti in the building.
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Blue Plaque commemorating social reformer Eleanor Rathbone at Tufton Court, Tufton Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3QH, City of Westminster
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Blue Plaque commemorating artist and writer Kate Greenaway at 39 Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6YD, London Borough of Camden.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Champion of Women's rights Josephine Butler at 8 North View, Wimbledon, London SW19 4UJ, London Borough of Merton.