Anarchist and journalist. Born Germany. Forced into exile, first France and in 1878 to London. Here he founded a newspaper, Freiheit/Freedom in which he printed his anarchist views. Imprisoned for a year and a half after which he emigrated to the USA, in 1882, where he repeated his London experiences: publishing his unacceptable views in his own paper and thus being imprisoned. Died Ohio, USA.
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Johann Most
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Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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Councillor A. C. Shearing
Architect of the British Legion Hornsey in 1929.
Jeannie MacKay
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Given on the mural as ‘Jenny’.
William Ian Baverstock Brooks
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
George Lansbury
Born Suffolk. Member of the Poplar Borough Council 1903 - 1940, Mayor 1919 - 20 & 1936 - 37. Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Privy Councillor. Leader of the Labour Party 1932 - 35...
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Jamie Sargeant
Sculptor. He trained with the Orton Trust, and became apprentice and then assistant to David Kindersley (father of Richard), who raised him in the tradition and spirit of direct carving and the tre...
King Haakon VII
Born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel in Charlottenlund Palace, near Copenhagen. Known as Prince Carl of Denmark, he became the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the uni...
Shaftesbury - Harrow
HA1, Church Hill, Old Schools
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Stephen Dykes Bower
Church architect. Born Gloucester. The official surveyor of the fabric for Westminster Abbey in 1961-73 and restored Martin-in-the-Fields after WW2. He has worked in parish churches and cathedra...
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