Erection date: 3/5/2022
Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, 1909 - 1997, philosopher, historian of ideas, lived here, 1928 - 1956.
Erected by the Heath & Hampstead Society
NW3, Hollycroft Avenue, 49
By sheer chance we discovered and photographed this plaque on 4 May 2022, the day after it was unveiled.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Isaiah Berlin - NW3
Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA was a Russian-British social and political theor...
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Isaiah Berlin - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
The plaque is to the right of the entrance.
This is a lovely plaque but the fireman's helmet on a plaque for a police constable is odd. It doesn't even seem as if a fire was involved.
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Dickens re-edited Grimaldi’s memoirs 1837-8. He worked from Thomas Wilks' edited version of Grimaldi’s original, which is now lost so the...
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