Also known as the Royal Society of London (for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge). A learned society for science, granted a royal charter by King Charles II. Wren was a founding member. The Society first met at Gresham College. In 1710 it moved into its own home in two houses in Crane Court. In 1780 it moved into Somerset House, along with a number of other learned societies, and in 1967 it moved to its current location in Carlton House Terrace. Invested in the slave trade.
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Royal Society
The Society's own website says "Meeting nights were indicated by a lamp hung ...
To the memory of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society and of...
William Tierney Clark 1783 - 1852 {Beneath Clark's portrait and a representat...
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Royal Society
We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...
From Tony Jauncey: "Tonbridge club in Judd Street was founded after WW2 by a local vicar for the boys of King's Cross and surrounding area, to get them off the street and channel their energy into ...
Born in Assam. He came to London in 1952, founded the Pakistan Welfare Association, and became a leading organiser of the fledgling Bengali language movement. He set up Desher Dak (Call To Land), t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Journalism / Publishing, Indian Sub-continent
A non-political, non-sectarian, cultural and social organisation which promotes and fosters fellowship and goodwill among Cornish people in London and elsewhere.
The first permanent English settlement in the Americas, and named by some as the place where the British Empire began.105 so-called 'adventurers' sailed in three ships, the 'Susan Constant', the 'D...
An appellation used on plaques erected by Sexual Avengers commemorating sites of gay events/interest.
