Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 - 1797, author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Women', pioneer of women's rights and mother of Mary Shelley. Stayed in a house on this site in 1784 and lived early years in Hoxton.
London Borough of Hackney
E8, Mare Street, 373-5
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Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godw...
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spita...
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Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
EU Today writes: "The first bomb of the London blitz landed on the Dockyard Offices on the periphery of what is now the car park for Surr...
Above the entrance to the building (to the left of our picture) in stone: 1573, E.R.".
Sir Geraint Evans, 1922 - 1992, opera singer and producer, lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
Tobacco Dock is a Grade I listed former warehouse, built in the early 19th century. In the 1990s it was converted into a shopping centre,...
The middle of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Ernest John Purdy was born on 24 May 1913 in Poplar, a twin with his sister, May Floren...
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