Former politician and author. Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. He led the campaign that resulted in the release of the 'Birmingham Six', who had been falsely convicted of the 1975 pub bombings. He was also the author of the novel 'A Very British Coup'.
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Chris Mullin
Site of the Roman road built by the Romans c. AD43 Unveiled by Chris Mullin M...
Goerge Robert Gissing. Novelist, best known for ‘New Grub Street’ about the hack writers who were concentrated in Grub Street, EC2. In 1830 Grub Street was renamed Milton Street; in WW2 it was badl...
Born Surrey as Ford Hermann Hueffer, of an English mother and German father, Francis Heuffer. Grew up in Pre-Raphaelite circles. On the death of their father in 1889 Ford and his brother went to li...
Person, Literature, France, Germany, USA
Author, poet, artist and art critic. Born at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. His first prose work was published in 1834 when he was only 15. He was a friend of Turner and became his executor. I...
From their website in 2022: "Since 2010, we’ve been celebrating the area’s radical and literary history with a festival that’s become one of the most eclectic, diverse and, frankly, FUN in the lite...
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.
Born Dublin shortly before her parents moved to London. 1929 the family moved to Kent. With difficulty (due to her gender) she managed to gain a place to study medicine at the University of Edinbur...
Aristocrat and politician. Son of Edward, the 1st Earl. Born in England but brought up partly in the Netherlands. Returned to England in 1660 and entered politics. Died in London.
A monastery was established here by the grey-habited Franciscans. Following the dissolution of the monasteries the church was renamed Christchurch and in 1552 the remains of the monastery were conv...
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