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250th Anniversary of Landmark Slavery Legal Case
An event is to be held on 22 June at Kenwood to mark the 250th anniversary of a landmark slavery legal case. Kenwood was the home of Lord Mansfield, the judge who made the ruling. New music has been commissioned from Chineke! Junior Orchestra.
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Seminal Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 commemorated with English Heritage Blue Plaque in East London
One of the most important strikes in modern British history has been commemorated by English Heritage with a blue plaque today (5 July 2022). The blue plaque was unveiled at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London where in early July 1888 around 1,400 of the predominantly female workforce walked out in protest at the dismissal of a number of their co-workers.
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Judi Dench Backs English Heritage’s 'Plaques for Women' Campaign
Dame Judi Dench has urged the public to "nominate the women you admire" for blue plaques, English Heritage announced today (21 November) as the charity unveiled a blue plaque to Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990), star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes. The plaque celebrating the popular film actress of the 1930s and 1940s was installed at 14 Highland Road in Upper Norwood, her first home after moving to London as a child in the early 1920s.
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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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Berwick-upon-Tweed Castle and Ramparts
The remains of a medieval castle crucial to Anglo-Scottish warfare.
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Blue plaque commemorating first woman to sit in Parliament, Nancy Astor, at 4 St James's Square, St James's, London SW1Y 6JU, City of Westminster.
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The home of the Venerable Bede, chronicler of the beginnings of English Christianity, Jarrow has become one of the best-understood Anglo-Saxon monastic sites.
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The ruined hall and chamber of a fortified manor house of the powerful Percy family, dating mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries. Its undercroft is cut into a rocky outcrop.
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The impressive ruins of a 14th-century castle with a massive keep, inner and outer baileys, and towered curtain walls still standing.
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Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.