Document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee that drafted it and our image shows her holding the Spanish language version.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Human Rights tree
Tulip Tree Planted 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing by the Un...
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Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for I...
1 memorial
London Irish Centre
The charity provides care, culture and community to the Irish across London, working from the iconic London Irish Centre in Camden Town.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Sailors' Home - Ensign Street & Dock Street
A group of philanthropists, led by Rev. George Charles ‘Boatswain’ Smith (1782–1863) founded the Destitute Sailors' Asylum in 1827, based in a converted warehouse in Dock Street and providing shelt...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (d.1915)
Politician. Born Essex. Grandson of the first baronet. Governor of South Australia. Died in a cottage at Cromer, rather than in his nearby family seat, Colne House, because at the time, WW1, that ...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Australia
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Sir Arthur Sullivan
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
Leaning against the pedestal there is a crying woman. The guitar, score and mask of Pan indicate that she represents Music, and isn't jus...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
1 creator
Margaret Roper - Woolwich Town Hall
SE18, Wellington Street, Greenwich Town Hall
In 1906 this building replaced the previous, also purpose-built, 1842 Woolwich town hall which still survives, nearby, on the corner of C...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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