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CETSHWAYO, kaMpande, King of the Zulus
Blue plaque commemorating King of the Zulus, Cetshwayo, at 18 Melbury Road, Holland Park, London W14 8LT, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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CETSHWAYO, kaMpande, King of the Zulus
Blue plaque commemorating King of the Zulus, Cetshwayo, at 18 Melbury Road, Holland Park, London W14 8LT, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Romans to blame for no-body-hair trend, says English HEritage
From painful waxes to irritating shaves, we can trace the modern obsession with hair removal back to the Romans, English Heritage has said today (24 May), as the charity displays a collection of tweezers used to remove armpit hair from Roman men and women in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, Shropshire – a Roman town once as large as Pompeii. Amongst over 400 artefacts, most of which have never been on display, other objects related to Roman cleanliness and beauty practices include a strigil (skin scraper), perfume bottles, jet and bone jewellery, make-up applicators and amulets for warding off evil. The new museum at Wroxeter opens to the public tomorrow.
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Karl Marx: the London connections
September 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Das Kapital, Karl Marx’s famous critique of capitalism. In this blog, blue plaques historian Howard Spencer explores Marx’s life in London, and tells us about five other political exiles commemorated with a plaque.
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Easby Abbey stands on the east bank of the river Swale. The abbey buildings were hemmed in between the valley slope and the river, which influenced their unusual layout and form.
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A description of Whitby Abbey, where the remains of the abbey church, built between the 13th and 15th centuries, survive as a famous landmark
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Border Reivers and Hadrian's Wall
How Housesteads Fort, built for troops manning the frontier of Roman Britain, became a locus of crime and unrest in 17th-century England, thanks to the ‘Busy Gap Rogues’.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Mahatma Gandhi at 20 Baron's Court Road, Barons Court, London W14 9DT, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.