Event    From 1932  To 1934

Failure of the World Disarmament Conference

Wikipedia.  War in History refers to the efforts to prohibit aerial bombing.

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Failure of the World Disarmament Conference

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Stone Bomb Anti-war Monument

Airplanes were used in WW1 but there was strong opposition to aerial bombing....

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Sir Nicholas Winton

Sir Nicholas Winton

Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to...

Person, Children, Peace

1 memorial
Mary Hughes

Mary Hughes

Social worker.  Born 80 Park Street, Mayfair, daughter to the Christian socialist Thomas Hughes who was author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays".  Moved to join her sister who was married to the Reverend...

Person, Peace, Social Welfare

1 memorial
50 years of peace

50 years of peace

50 years after the end of WW2

Event, Peace

1 memorial
Haringey First World War Peace Forum

Haringey First World War Peace Forum

From HFWWPF: The Haringey First World War Peace Forum was a small working group in north London, researching the conscientious objectors who were associated with the districts of Hornsey, Tottenham...

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Peace

1 memorial
Pierre Cérésole

Pierre Cérésole

Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...

Person, Engineering, Peace, Switzerland

1 memorial

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Sir William Empson

Sir William Empson

WC1, Marchmont Street, 65

Unveiled by Sir Williams’ son, Jake Empson. At no 71 Empson lived in the the first floor flat.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Kevin Dennis

Kevin Dennis

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Dennis Butcher was born on 13 July 1958, the only son of Richard Dennis and Patricia M. Dennis née Butcher...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Michael Faraday memorial - substation

Michael Faraday memorial - substation

SE1, Elephant and Castle roundabout

This shiny steel box contains an electricity substation for the Bakerloo and Northern lines, but it is also a memorial to Michael Faraday...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection / Cruelty Free International

British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection / Cruelty Free International

Founded in Bristol by Frances Power Cobbe, who had earlier founded the NAVS. 2012 it joined another organisation and rebranded as Cruelty Free International. For completeness we should mention the...

Group, Animals

1 memorial