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SITWELL, Dame Edith (1887–1964)
Blue Plaque commemorating poet Dame Edith Sitwell at Greenhill, Hampstead High Street, Hampstead, London NW3 5TY, London Borough of Camden.
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STEPHENSON, Robert (1803-1859)
Blue Plaque commemorating engineer Robert Stephenson at 35 Gloucester Square, Paddington, London W2 2DT, City of Westminster.
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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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SVEVO, Italo (1861-1928) a.k.a. Ettore Schmitz
Blue Plaque commemorating writer Italo Svevo A.K.A. Ettore Schmitz at 67 Charlton Church Lane, Charlton, London SE7 7AB, London Borough of Greenwich.
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Writer Martha Gellhorn Receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
The war correspondent and writer Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), who reported on conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Martha Gellhorn Receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
The war correspondent and writer Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), who reported on conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque today (3 September).
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John Osborne, the revolutionary post-war playwright, has today been awarded an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, exactly 65 years after his seminal play Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 8 May 1956. The plaque marks 53 Caithness Road in Hammersmith, the terraced red-brick property which was his London base at the time he wrote Look Back in Anger, arguably his best-known work and inspired by his life with his wife, actress Pamela Lane, in the very same building.
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Whether your passion is for a particular place or for all our historic sites, your support will help care for the buildings, landscapes and objects that tell the story of England.
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English Heritage appoints Tony Hales CBE as its new Chair
English Heritage has appointed Tony Hales CBE as Chair of its Board of Trustees.