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University College London (UCL)

The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the first not to discriminate on race, class or religion, and the first to accept women on equal terms. Jeremy Bentham was not its founder but was its spiritual father.

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University College London (UCL)

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Brown Dog statue

See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affai...

Brown Dog statue - original - lost

The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...

Sarah Parker Remond

Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...

Zachary Macaulay - WC1

Zachary Macaulay FRS, 1768 - 1838, anti-slavery activist, statistician, one o...

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University College London (UCL)

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Bentham in Queen Anne's Gate

Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, 1748 - 1832, lived in a house on th...

Gregory Foster

By resolution of the University College Committee of the Sixth of June 1933 t...

UCL quad - creation

This quadrangle of University College London, of which the first stone was la...

UCL - WW1

This inscription is placed here to perpetuate the memory of the members of th...

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Dinah Fryer

Born in 1954, Dinah Fryer was an Australian history schoolteacher at Golden Grove High School in Adelaide, South Australia, who was on her first overseas trip with her husband Chris Fryer and their...

Person, Education, Tragedy, Australia, Southeast Asia

1 memorial

Mrs Gribbell

Associated with the Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road, 1883.

Person, Education

1 memorial

Henry Brooks Adams

Apart from the fact that he won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919, all that the web can supply for him is quotations. You might have better luck. We published this plaque in 2009 and...

Person, Education, History, Journalism / Publishing, USA

1 memorial

Kaoru Inoue

Became a student at UCL in 1863.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial

Herbert Howells

Composer. Born Herbert Norman Howells at High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire. He studied under Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music and succeeded Gustav Holst as director of music at St ...

Person, Education, Music / songs

1 memorial

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Members of Selfridges department store in 1930

Group, Commerce

1 memorial

East End Maternity Hospital

The splendid Lost Hospitals of London gives a full history. In summary: Opened as the Mothers' Lying-In Home in Glamis Road, Shadwell. 1889 moved to number 396 Commercial Road and by WW1 it had ex...

Group, Medicine

2 memorials

The Trafalgar Way - Canada House

WC2, Cockspur Street, Canada House

The Trafalgar Way at Canada House The first official despatches with news of the victory, and the death in action of Vice Admiral Lord N...

6 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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Kingston Spiritualist Church

Our photo of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle officiating at the church's opening comes from a previous incarnation (appropriate expression?) of the Kingston Spiritualist Church website. Now, 2020, there is ...

Building, Religion

4 memorials

Metropolitan Railway Company

This was the world's first underground passenger railway which opened from Paddington to Farringdon via Baker Street Station on 10th January 1863. IanVisits has reproduced an Illustrated London Ne...

Group, Transport

7 memorials