Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried but failed to buy the collection, which is now housed in the Linnaean Society in Burlington House.
2021: His relationship with racism is being described as 'complicated'.
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Carl Linnaeus
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Carl Linnaeus
{3 sides of the boarding around a tree carry painted text:} Swedish botanist ...
Wikipedia tells the sorry story of this man. Born to a West African slave woman in Jamaica, his father, James Wedderburn, being a Scottish doctor and plantation owner, who had children by several ...
Broadcaster, writer and civil liberties campaigner. Born as Leighton Rhett Radford Howe in Moruga, Trinidad. He moved to England at the age of 18 and initially studied law before moving to journali...
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Born York. Bishop of London 1787 - 1809. The first senior church official to support the abolition of slavery. Died at Fulham Palace.
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Nirmal Chandra Roy first stood as a Labour party candidate in the Adelaide Ward of the London Borough of Camden in the 1978 council elections and came 6th. Four years later in 1982 he stood in the ...
One of their responsibilities is all the archaeology in London, run by MOLA. 2024: As part of its move from the London Wall site to Smithfield the Museum of London rebranded as the London Museum. ...
This statue is made of a single piece of marble weighing 11 tons. As was the fashion at the time the king is depicted wearing the militar...
The cheerful quotation is from Proverbs 9:10 and also 1:7.
The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Osborne.
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