At this meeting Karl Marx (attending as delegate of the Brussels Circle) and Frederick Engels (representing the Paris communities) were commissioned to write an action programme for the Communist League. This programme was published in February 1848 in German as 'Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei' or the Communist Manifesto.
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Second Congress of the Communist League
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Anti-Corn-Law League
Founded in Manchester by Richard Cobden with the objective of having the Corn Laws abolished. This achieved, the League was dissolved. The Corn Laws imposed a high import tax on foreign grain, th...
1 memorial
T. F. Bryen
1906 Councillor and Chairman of the Public Libraries Committee and Chairman of the committee for the erection of Islington Library.
2 memorials
John Joseph Dorey
Builder active in 1887. Also built: Boston Manor Road Library (1903) Brentford High Street Project published the death notice in the Middlesex Independent of 25 September 0918: "...the death of Mr...
1 memorial
Thomas Holland
We thank Jay Dae-Su Vega for permission to use this picture from his website where we learn that Holland was a barrister. Thence we found the Middle Temple register of admissions where we learn tha...
2 memorials
John Ladley
Co-overseer of the Westminster Union workhouse in 1826. At The Book of the Bastiles we find in 1838 a Mr. Ladley as an overseer at Hanwell workhouse. Could be our Ladley.
1 memorial
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Jean Rhys
SW3, Paultons Square, Paultons House
Jean Rhys, 1890 - 1979, writer lived here in flat 22, 1936 - 1938. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
J. H. T. Gast
Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Pioneer John Henry Thomas Gast. Born in 1880 in Marylebone, London, the son of Thomas Hunt Gast and Mary Gast. His father was a Carp...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial