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Claudia Jones was a ceaseless campaigner for racial justice and is credited with having been among the first to bring Caribbean carnival to London. English Heritage has commemorated her with a blue plaque at 6 Meadow Road, Vauxhall.
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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.
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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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A blue plaque in Putney, London Borough of Wandsworth, commemorates Abdus Salam, the physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He lived there between 1957 and 1996.
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LAUTERPACHT, Sir Hersch (1897–1960)
Blue plaque commemorating Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, one of the most influential international lawyers of the twentieth century, at 103 Walm Lane, London.
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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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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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CUGOANO, OTTOBAH (born c 1757)
A blue plaque at 80-82 Pall Mall, London, commemorates Ottobah Cugoano, the author and anti-slavery campaigner.
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A blue plaque in Putney, London Borough of Wandsworth, commemorates Abdus Salam, the physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He lived there between 1957 and 1996.