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Black History Walks

Black History Walks offer guided Walking Tours London to include the African history of London.

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Black History Walks

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Darcus Howe - SE24

Darcus Howe, 1943 - 2017, civil rights activist, writer and broadcaster, edit...

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Dennis Brown

Unveiled as part of the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence.

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Doctor Harold Moody - WC1

Harold Arundel Moody, 1882 - 1947, Jamaican doctor, humanitarian and British ...

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Frank Crichlow

Frank Gilbert Crichlow, 1932 - 2010, human rights campaigner, community organ...

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Phillis Wheatley

On this site in September 1773, A. Bell Booksellers published a volume of poe...

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Other Subjects

National Railway Heritage Awards

National Railway Heritage Awards

From their website: "We are the only Awards body dedicated to encouraging and rewarding best practice in the restoration and continued upkeep of our rich heritage of railway and tramway buildings a...

Group, Craft / Design, History, Transport

1 memorial
R. J. Wren

R. J. Wren

Founder and Chair of the Arctic Campaign Memorial Trust.

Person, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial
Peter Arnold

Peter Arnold

Tenuously connected to Benedict Arnold.  From NBC: "An amateur historian, Arnold thoroughly researched his family lineage and discovered a link to the general - although his own branch of the Arnol...

Person, History

1 memorial
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.

Author. She has won the Booker Prize twice with 'Wolf Hall' (a fictional account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell) and 'Bring up the Bodies'. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in...

Person, History, Literature

1 memorial
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA

Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...

Person, Art, History, Austria

1 memorial

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Bomber Command crews

Bomber Command crews

During WW2 they flew over Germany at night to bomb first industial targets but later whole areas including civilian towns. Their average age was 22 and they went out night after night, knowing that...

Group, Armed Forces

2 memorials
Abbot Laurence Soper

Abbot Laurence Soper

Searching for a picture we were shocked to find the picture source website where we learn that Soper was, in September 2012, wanted by the police " in connection with allegations of {historic} sexu...

Person, Children, Religion, Tragedy

1 memorial
London County Council

London County Council

Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...

Group, Politics & Administration

279 memorials
Father Thomas Byles

Father Thomas Byles

Catholic priest. Born Roussel Davids Byles in Leeds. He was ordained in 1902, (which is when he took the name of Thomas), and in 1905 was assigned to St Helen's Parish in Chipping Ongar, Essex. He ...

Person, Religion

2 memorials