Early campaigner for women’s rights, particularly the rights of workers. An editor of the Englishwoman's Review. Born County Kerry, Ireland.
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Helen Blackburn
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) in which she described marriage as "legal prostitu...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Philosophy, Seriously Famous, Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
10 memorials
Annie Kenney
Working-class suffragette from Manchester, member of the WSPU and one of the most prominent women in the movement. Born Oldham. 1918, after some women had won the vote, she married James Taylor (18...
1 memorial
Frances Power Cobbe
Irish social reformer and suffragist. Writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the Nati...
1 memorial
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. Born Suffolk and brought up at Snape where her family owned the maltings. Pioneer of the women's suffrage movement but she advocated a non-viole...
6 memorials
Friendly Female Society
From Bridge to Nowhere: "The Female Friendly Society {sic} was started in 1802, by and for women, operating “by love, kindness, and absence of humbug”. It gave small grants to “poor, aged women of ...
1 memorial
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Granville Sharp
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Durham. 1757 became Clerk in the Ordnance Office. Became involved with the anti-slavery campaign by a personal involvement with an injured slave, Jonathan Strong, a...
1 memorial
William Johnson Fox
Born Suffolk. 1806 he enrolled in the Independent academy at Homerton, then 'near' London. 1812 converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism. 1817 called to the Unitarian, chapel in Parliament Court,...
1 memorial
Ministere de la Defense et des Anciens Combattants - France
The equivalent of the UK Ministry of Defence has a special section, named in the Ministry’s title, to deal with Veterans & War Victims – indeed there is a National Office – set up for this very...
1 memorial
Haberdashers Place - 1802
N1, Pitfield Street
The 1802 stone has clearly been saved from the ruin, and the 1952 plaque modelled on it. Nicely done. The close-up picture was taken fr...
1 subject commemorated
Brown Dog statue
SW11, Battersea Park, Woodland Walk
See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affair. This ended when, in 1910 the original statue was removed...
3 subjects commemorated,
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