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Blue plaque to writer Angela Carter at 107 The Chase, Clapham, London, SW4 0NR, London Borough of Lambeth.
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Blue plaque to writer Angela Carter at 107 The Chase, Clapham, London, SW4 0NR, London Borough of Lambeth.
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GASKELL, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
Blue Plaque commemorating novelist Elizabeth Gaskell at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0DQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue plaque for Sir Robert Hunter
English Heritage has commemorated Sir Robert Hunter, co-founder and first Chairman of the National Trust, with a blue plaque at his Battersea home
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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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PRIORY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE THEATRE
Blue Plaque commemorating the first London building specially devoted to the performance of plays The Theatre, Priory of St. John The Baptist at 86-88 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3AA, London Borough of Hackney.
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Blue Plaques to tell stories of working class experience
English Heritage will commemorate the Match Girls’ strike with a blue plaque later this year. The plaque will mark the place in Bow where around 1,400 women walked out of the Bryant and May match factory in 1888 in protest at the dismissal of three co-workers, low pay and dangerous working conditions. Working with white phosphorus, the employees were in danger of developing ‘Phossy jaw’, a disease that could cause catastrophic injuries, disfigurement and even death.
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GASKELL, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
Blue Plaque commemorating novelist Elizabeth Gaskell at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0DQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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GASKELL, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
Blue Plaque commemorating novelist Elizabeth Gaskell at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0DQ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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HUNTER, Sir Robert (1844–1913)
Blue Plaque commemorating solicitor, civil servant and co-founder of the National Trust, Sir Robert Hunter, at his former home at 5 Louvaine Road, Battersea, London SW11 2AQ. London Borough of Wandsworth.