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We Want More Blue Plaques for Women, says English Heritage
English Heritage is calling on the public to nominate more notable women from history for London blue plaques and to help the charity increase the number of women honoured with the iconic blue roundels.
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English Heritage reveals anniversary plans for Blue Plaques scheme
Comedian Tommy Cooper, food writer Elizabeth David and playwright Samuel Beckett are among those whose achievements and time spent living in London will be celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaques in this the scheme’s 150th year, English Heritage have revealed.
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Celebrated for her industrial textile designs for the London Underground, designer Enid Marx is commemorated with a blue plaque at 39 Thornhill Road, Barnsbury, where she lived and worked for more than 30 years.
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Juan Pujol Garcia was one of the most important secret agents of the Second World War. From a modest two-storey house in Hendon, he wove a web of deception that bamboozled the Nazis.
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Blue plaque commemorating the former home of the art historian and broadcaster, Kenneth Clark, at 30 Portland Place in Marylebone, London W1B 1LZ.
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Victorian country house frozen in time and award-winning gardens
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Olive Morris was an activist dedicated to speaking out on behalf of oppressed and exploited people. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 121 Railton Road, Brixton, where she lived as a squatter and hosted study groups in the 1970s.
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Wadia, Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808–1877)
A pioneering 19th-century civil engineer and shipbuilder, Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Joan Robinson was among the most influential economic thinkers of the 20th century, and one of the first women to establish herself in the discipline. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 44 Kensington Park Gardens, where she undertook voluntary work that led her to study economics.
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Housing reformer and surveyor Irene Barclay is recognised with a blue plaque. In May 1922, Irene Barclay became the first woman to qualify as a chartered surveyor in Britain. 1A St Martin's House, Polygon Road marks the address of the office in Somers Town where she created models for community living and was instrumental in the building of nearly 1,000 new homes.