First daily newspaper to be published in England. Published by Elixabeth Mallet from rooms above the White Hart in Fleet Street.
2022: Londonist, rightly, draws attention to the fact that this, Britain's first daily newspaper, was founded by a woman, Elizabeth Mallet, and yet she is not mentioned on the plaques, let alone honoured with one herself.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Daily Courant
Crane Court The Daily Courant, No 1 Wednesday March 11, 1702 {A facsimile of ...
The Corporation of the City of London In a house near this site was publishe...
Born Richmond, Surrey. Bookseller and author. He published the works of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were also close friends. Rossetti wrote a limerick about him: "There’s a pub...
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955. Became a community organiser afte...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, USA
Apart from the fact that he won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919, all that the web can supply for him is quotations. You might have better luck. We published this plaque in 2009 and...
Radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement. Born Birmingham as George Jacob Holyoake. He coined the term "secularism" in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secul...
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