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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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English Heritage Marks 250th Anniversary of Landmark Slavery Legal Case
English Heritage will mark the 250th anniversary of the 22 June 1772 Somerset v Stewart ruling, a landmark case which contributed to the abolition of slavery in England, the charity announced today (22 June). English Heritage has commissioned new music to commemorate the anniversary inspired by the life of James Somerset from the Chineke! Junior Orchestra - Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra - which will be performed for the first time at an evening event at Kenwood in London on 22 June and will be available to listen to online.
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Record number of women to be celebrated with English Heritage blue plaques in 2024
Britain’s first female press photographer and first female neurosurgeon among those to receive plaques
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Six New Blue Plaques for Women in 2020
Second World War spies, suffrage organisation headquarters and one of Britain’s most important 20th-century artists will be among six new blue plaques honouring women this year.
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Six New Blue Plaques for Women
English Heritage plans to unveil six plaques honouring women this year, the charity announced today (4 March). Second World War spies, suffrage organisation headquarters and one of Britain’s most important twentieth-century artists will be among the six new plaques, with the first addition to the scheme dedicated to botanist and leader of women in the armed forces, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, today.
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The impressive full-height 15th-century tower and other remains of a remote abbey of Premonstratensian 'white canons'.
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In a beautiful setting by the River Swale, Easby can be reached via a pleasant walk from Richmond Castle.
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Walltown Crags - Hadrian's Wall
One of the best places of all to see the Wall, dramatically snaking and diving along the crags of the Whin Sill.
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1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield
Relive the battle that changed England forever.
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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.