Early campaigner for women’s rights, particularly the rights of workers. An editor of the Englishwoman's Review. Born County Kerry, Ireland.
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Helen Blackburn
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Madam Bodichon
Born Whatlington, near Robertsbridge, Sussex as Barbara Leigh Smith. Painter and women’s activist. Married the physician Eugène Bodichon in 1857. She set up the English Women’s Journal and led the ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philosophy, Seriously Famous, Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
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Winchester geese
In medieval London the Bishop of Winchester (e.g. William of Wykeham) had a Palace on the section of the south bank of the Thames nearest here. It included what is now Southwark Cathedral and the b...
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Mrs Mallet
Concerned for the poor of Lambeth and was a district visitor in 1864 trying to identify families in need. She organized a refuge for women and then started to prepare penny dinners. She also ran mo...
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OutRage!
From the picture source website: "OutRage! is the world's longest surviving queer rights direct action group. Our witty, imaginative, daring, and irreverent style of non-violent civil disobedience...
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Millbank Prison
The design and construction of this prison stretched from 1799 - 1821 and passed through many hands: Jeremy Bentham, William Williams, Thomas Hardwick (father of Philip), John Harvey and Robert Smi...
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Dr. Dennis Geffen
O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras, 1844 - 1959. Worked in the polio field.
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The Round School
It was the principal elementary school in Wimbledon Village, run as a charity school for poor children. Amongst its trustees was William Wilberforce who lived locally. Lord Nelson also donated mone...
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Edward Cooper, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 August 1917, age 21, while serving in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. "Enemy machine gun fire from a blockhouse was holding up the battalion’s advance. With four ...
War served, WW1
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