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Blue plaque commemorating naturalist Charles Darwin at Biological Sciences Building, University College, Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT.
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VEREKER, John, Viscount Gort, V.C. (1886-1946)
Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC (1886–1946), the Commander-in-Chief at Dunkirk, is commemorated at the house in Belgravia where he lived in the 1920s.
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Jean Muir, dressmaker and fashion designer, celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaque
An English Heritage London blue plaque to Jean Muir, the celebrated dressmaker and fashion designer, has today been unveiled by her house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley. The plaque marks 22 Bruton Street in Mayfair, the address of the Jean Muir Ltd showroom and office where the designer worked for almost 30 years, from 1966 until her death in 1995.
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English Heritage announces social policy expert Gerard Lemos as its next Chair
Gerard Lemos CMG – a former Chair of the British Council, the founding Chair of the Akram Khan dance company, and the current Chair of the Agency Board of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service – will be the next Chair of English Heritage, the charity announced today (Thursday 30 June 2022).
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First Indian to win a popular election to the UK Parliament receives Blue Plaque
English Heritage has today (10 August 2022) unveiled a blue plaque dedicated to Dadabhai Naoroji, an Indian Nationalist and the first Indian to win a popular election to Parliament in the UK. Dubbed the ‘grand old man of India’ and described in his Times obituary as ‘the father of Indian Nationalism’, Naoroji made seven trips to England, and spent over three decades of his long life in London. His plaque marks the red-bricked semi-detached house in Penge, south London, that was his home around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Blue Plaque commemorating policeman and boxer Harry Mallin at 105 Regency Street, Pimlico, London SW1P 4EF, City of Westminster.
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London’s blue plaques show that England’s capital has been a strong magnet for foreign-born composers, including Handel, Mozart and Chopin. Find out more about the lives of these legendary composers and how they came to London.
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London’s blue plaques show that England’s capital has been a strong magnet for foreign-born composers, including Handel, Mozart and Chopin. Find out more about the lives of these legendary composers and how they came to London.
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Lucius Septimius Severus (AD 145–211) was born in what is now Libya and became Roman emperor in AD 193 after a ruthless campaign against his rivals. He rose from relative mediocrity to start a new dynasty and his tenure as emperor was characterised by battling usurpers and brutal military campaigns in Parthia and Britain. Although his campaigns to the north of Hadrian’s Wall were cut short by his death, their effects on the frontier are visible to this day.