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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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and International elder statesman.  Born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei, South Africa.  Gaoled 5th August 1962, sentenced to life imprisonment 12...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, South Africa

5 memorials
Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Paris

The agreement in which Britain acknowledged the United States to be sovereign and independent. Drafted in 1782 and effective from 12 May 1784.  The 6 men named on the memorial were the representati...

Event, Peace, France, USA

1 memorial
Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.  Trained and initially worked as an artist. Worked with George Lansbury in the East End. 1924 Sylvia moved from the East End of...

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Seriously Famous, Ethiopia

10 memorials
Philip Noel-Baker

Philip Noel-Baker

Politician and Nobel prize-winner. Born Philip John Noel-Baker at Woodstock, Brondesbury Park, the son of Joseph Allen Baker. Educated in Britain and America. During his career at Cambridge, he was...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, USA

1 memorial
League of Nations

League of Nations

Founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. At its height, it had 58 member states. Although achieving much in its early years, it was unable to prevent the aggress...

Group, Peace, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Fawcett frieze - 44, Drummond

Fawcett frieze - 44, Drummond

SW1, Parliament Square

Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...

1 subject commemorated
West India Docks

West India Docks

A series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs. Their construction was largely the responsibility of Robert Milligan, who had managed his family's Jamaica sugar plantations. He became outraged at loss...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial
Bernard Schmidt

Bernard Schmidt

Organ builder. Born Germany. Came to England in about 1660. Known as Father Smith.

Person, Craft / Design, Music / songs, Germany

1 memorial
Alfred Willie Baker

Alfred Willie Baker

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Was killed serving in HM forces in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Gordon Butler
War dead, WW1
1 memorial