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ELIOT, George (1819-1880) a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans
Blue Plaque commemorating George Eliot 'Mary Anne Evans' at Holly Lodge, 31 Wimbledon Park Road, Wimbledon, London SW18 5SJ, London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Leading stage actress of 20th century commemorated with blue plaque
Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, remembered at her childhood home
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Prince Albert and Queen Victoria had nine children, five girls and four boys, with 17 years between the oldest and the youngest. Each had their own interests and distinct personalities.
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Blue Plaque commemorating writer Elizabeth Bowen at 1-7 Clarence Terrace, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RD, City of Westminster.
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Joan Clarke was a mathematician and code-breaker. She was the most senior of the few female cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, where she helped cracked the German naval Enigma code. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 193 Rosendale Road, her childhood home where she studied to become a talented mathematician.
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ELIOT, George (1819-1880) a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans
Blue Plaque commemorating George Eliot 'Mary Anne Evans' at Holly Lodge, 31 Wimbledon Park Road, Wimbledon, London SW18 5SJ, London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Gertrude Bell awarded English Heritage blue plaque
Traveller, archaeologist and diplomat Gertrude Bell has been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at 95 Sloane Street in Chelsea. The three storey Georgian house belonged to her stepmother Florence’s mother, Lady Olliffe, and served as her London base for over 40 years, from 1884 until her last visit to London in 1925.
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Second World War heroine honoured with blue plaque
English Heritage will today (28 August) unveil a blue plaque to the Second World War spy, Noor Inayat Khan. The new plaque will mark the house on Taviton Street in Bloomsbury that was her family home when she left for Nazi-occupied France in 1943 as an undercover radio operator. She was killed at Dachau concentration camp in 1944, having revealed nothing to her captors, not even her real name.
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Jean Muir, dressmaker and fashion designer, celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaque
A blue plaque honouring Jean Muir, the celebrated dressmaker and fashion designer, has been unveiled by her house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley.
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Blue plaque for Barbara Pym's Pimlico home
The home that saw the beginnings of the celebrated novelist’s literary career is to be marked with a new plaque