Group    From 1830  To 1900

Bradbury & Evans

Founded by William Bradbury (1800-1869) and Frederick Mullet Evans (1803-1870) as printers in 1830, they added publishing in 1847. Their productions included Punch and works for Dickens and Thackeray.

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Bradbury & Evans

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Alex Pascal

Alex Pascal

Alex Pascall, OBE is a British broadcaster, journalist, musician, composer, oral historian and educator. Based in Britain for more than 50 years, he was one of the developers of the Notting Hill Ca...

Person, Community / Clubs, Education, History, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, TV & Radio, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Mathew Philip Crosse

Mathew Philip Crosse

Mathew Philip Crosse was born on 18 May 1914 in Wandsworth, London, the son of Samuel Crosse (b. circa 1854) and Alice Edith Crosse (b. 1885). His birth was registered as Matthew P. Cross in the 2n...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Journalism / Publishing, Law

1 memorial
John Kidd and Co.

John Kidd and Co.

Manufacturers of printing ink for the newspaper industry. Its head office was at Wine Office Court off Fleet Street.

Group, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

‘Tin Pan Alley’ originally, 1885, referred to the section of New York City where music publishers and songwriters were based.  In 1920s London music shops congregated in Denmark Street and the term...

Place, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs

1 memorial
Nature

Nature

Scientific Journal published by Macmillan's. Created by Norman Lockyer to 'provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge' The journal's name...

Media, Journalism / Publishing, Science

1 memorial

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White Conduit

White Conduit

Originally part of the water supply to the Greyfriars Monastery, Newgate Street. See British History 1 and British History 2 for details. The same water was also used to supply Charterhouse from th...

Place, Food & Drink

1 memorial
John Locke

John Locke

Philosopher. Born Somerset. Wrote 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' and 'Two Treatises of Government'.  1693 wrote 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' saying  "I think I may say that of al...

Person, Education, Philosophy

3 memorials
Charles Dickens Museum - blue plaque

Charles Dickens Museum - blue plaque

WC1, Doughty Street, 48

This building is often said to be Dickens' only surviving London home.  There is at least one other: 10 Norfolk Street, now 22 Cleveland ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Wagner School

Wagner School

Private day school for young boys at 90 Queen's Gate, run by Orlando Henry Wagner (1867-1956) and his wife Monica. Operating before WW1 but we can't find start and end dates. An old boy, Michael Ma...

Group, Education

1 memorial
Corporation of the City of London

Corporation of the City of London

The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...

Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration

186 memorials