Central figure of Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War. Born and died in Spain.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Buenaventura Durruti
Commemorated ati
Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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Reformers tree / Reform tree
The text on the memorial says that the original tree was burnt by the people at the Reform League meeting at the tree on that day in 1866 but we can find no confirmation of that. Wikipedia has qui...
Eyre Massey Shaw
Soldier and fire brigade chief. Probably born at Glenmore Cottage, Ballymore, Ireland. After a short military career, he was appointed Chief Constable of Belfast, being responsible for both the pol...
Person, Emergency Services, Politics & Administration, Ireland
William Sloman
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Councillor P. A. Hart
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Born at 24 Grosvenor Square. Promoted many reform causes, connected with factories, children, mental illness, housing. Also supported the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews. President of the ...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
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E. Vincent Harris
Architect with London County Council in 1905. Born Devonport, Plymouth.
North London Synagogue
From JCR-UK: The Ashkenazi Orthodox congregation formed in approximately 1860 and initially met in a room in Upper Street. Then used rooms at Barnsbury Hall, 2-4 Barnsbury Street, until 1868 when t...
King Haakon VII
Born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel in Charlottenlund Palace, near Copenhagen. Known as Prince Carl of Denmark, he became the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the uni...
Little Dorrit
A novel by Charles Dickens first published in serial form 1855 and 1857. The title character is the daughter of a man imprisioned in Marshalsea prison for debt.
Punch magazine
Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house in the Strand, attended by Henry Mayhew, brewery manager Mark Lemon, and engraver Ebenezer Landells. The first issue wa...
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