Psychoanalyst who works near West Smithfield and is interested in local history. He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the 1381 revolt took place and where Tyler fell. Up to this point there had been none. It took him about a year of bureaucratic to-ing and fro-ing to get the go ahead from The City, St Bart's and English Heritage. He commissioned Emily Hoffnung to design and carve the Great Rising memorial. And went on to arrange for the Rosa Luxemburg plaque.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Matthew Bell
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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919. On this site in 1907, revolutionary socialist Ro...
The Great Rising / Peasants' Revolt
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that...
Other Subjects
Jamestown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia
We don't think this is connected to the Jamestown Foundation based in Washington DC. We think it must be/have been a group interested in promoting the history of the early settlement of America.
1 memorial
Rachel Pantrey
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
1 memorial
Battersea Society
As so often happens, this group was formed to campaign against the proposed demolition of something, in this case Albert Bridge. Thankfully their campaign was successful and they have gone on to si...
4 memorials
Department of National Heritage
Created on 11 April 1992. By 2013 it had become part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which sponsors English Heritage.
1 memorial
Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
From their website: "The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is a non-profit, volunteer organization. The purpose of the Society is to identify and recognize sites of American Jewish ...
6 memorials
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