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BEVERIDGE, Sir William (1879-1963)
Blue plaque commemorating politician Sir William Beveridge at 27 Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, W8, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950)
Blue Plaque commemorating playwright George Bernard Shaw at 29 Fitzroy Square, Fitzrovia, London W1T 6LQ, London Borough of Camden.
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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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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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ABERCROMBIE, Sir Patrick (1879-1957)
Blue plaque commemorating the pioneer of town and country planning, Sir Patrick Abercrombie, at his former home Flat 1, 63 Egerton Gardens, Brompton, SW3 2BZ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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COPEMAN, Sydney Monckton (1862-1947)
Blue Plaque commemorating immunologist Sydney Monckton Copeman at 57 Redcliffe Gardens, Chelsea, London SW10 9JJ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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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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Evidence of Lost Saint: Uncovered
A previously overlooked entry in a 15th-century manuscript has been uncovered by English Heritage, providing new evidence that one of medieval England’s most influential figures, Thurstan was, contrary to belief, a saint. The document – a service book from Pontefract Priory - lists St Thurstan in a calendar of saints' feast days observed at the monastery.
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Charles Darwin's gift from Karl Marx goes on display at Down House
Given to Charles Darwin by admirer Karl Marx, the newly conserved copy of Das Kapital was abandoned and remains uncut and unread 150 years later