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Matthew Bell

Categories: History, Medicine

Psychotherapist who works locally and is interested in local history.   He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the 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 memorial. 

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Matthew Bell

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The Great Rising / Peasants' Revolt

Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that...

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Friern Barnet & District Local History Society

Friern Barnet & District Local History Society

From their website: "Our founder, John Donovan, lived in Friern Barnet between 1966 and 1995. He became concerned that nothing was being done to record and preserve the history of the area and befo...

Group, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial
Veterinary History Society
1 memorial
Creekmouth Preservation Society

Creekmouth Preservation Society

Formed with the purpose of preserving the history of Creekmouth Village.

Group, Community / Clubs, History

2 memorials
Sir Fabian Ware

Sir Fabian Ware

Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Born Bristol. Became a teacher, moved into education management and worked in the Transvaal. Back in Britain he edited a newspaper. In WW1, too old f...

Person, History, South Africa

1 memorial
James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude

Historian. novelist and biographer. Born at Dartington Rectory, Devon. He intended to become a clergyman, but his doubts expressed in his novel 'The Nemesis of Faith' changed his mind and he turned...

Person, History, Literature

1 memorial