Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's Disease. Died Shanghai.
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Ba Jin
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Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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Old Poplar Town Hall
At Poplar High Street, Woodstock Terrace corner. Listed Grade 2, architects: Hills, Fletcher and Harstons. Built in 1870 for the Poplar District Board of Works, which in 1900 became the Poplar Boro...
John Kettle
Chairman of the Plaistow Library Committee in the Borough of West Ham in 1902. Apart from the information and image of John Kettle that is contained on the London Wiki website our research has fou...
Oliver Jones
Chair of Lady Workers' Homes Ltd in 1936. A founding member of the Holly Lodge Estate Committee, a plot holder and a Trustee.
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United Nations 50th Anniversary
SW1, Tothill Street, Central Hall
These two plaques are commemorating the same thing.
Karla Roman
E1, Whitechapel High Street
Killed at 9am as she cycled to work, by a coach. As far as we can tell the coach turned left across her path, as she also turned left out...
Jerwood Medical Centre
NW1, Peto Place, Jerwood Medical Centre
The content of this plaque is rather dull but we love the quality brickwork.
British Museum War Memorial
WC1, Great Russell Street, British Museum
Designed and carved by Eric Gill.
17 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Wilfred Wood, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28 October 1918, age 21, while serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers. "When the advance was held up he ran forward firing his Lewis gun from the hip, he captured...
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