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English Heritage commemorates Britain’s first female neurosurgeon
Diana Beck receives plaque 99 years after qualifying as a doctor
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A Monumental Act: How Britain Saved its Heritage
'A Monumental Act: How Britain Saved its Heritage', visitors are taken back to the early 20th century to see how a new law and a small band of people saved Britain's most historic buildings.
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Blue Plaque commemorating actor David Garrick at Garrick's Villa, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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The trailblazing female barrister and champion of women’s rights, Helena Normanton, has today been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque. Erected almost 100 years after she passed her Bar finals (on 26 October 1921), the plaque marks 22 Mecklenburgh Square, Normanton’s home from 1919 to 1931, the period when she was forging her legal career. Whilst living there, she funded her training and supplemented her income by letting rooms in the large property.
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Blue Plaque for Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist and conductor who brought classical music into the spotlight honoured by English Heritage
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Angela Carter receives English Heritage blue plaque
English Heritage has commemorated the legacy of award winning novelist Angela Carter with a blue plaque at her former home in Clapham. It was at this house, 107, The Chase, that Carter spent the last sixteen years of her life. She often tutored her then student, Kazuo Ishiguro, at the kitchen table and received fellow writers – J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie – as guests.
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Blue Plaque commemorating author of 'Moby Dick' Herman Melville at 25 Craven Street, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5NT, City of Westminster.