Initiated by Roger Fenton and founded in London as the Photographic Society of London with Fenton as its first Secretary. The inaugural meeting was held at the, then, Society of Arts. Received Royal patronage in 1854.
The society was based in London until 1980 when it moved to Bath. Wikipedia has a list of the London addresses.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Royal Photographic Society
Eadweard Muybridge photographer, 1830 - 1904, lived here. The Royal Photograp...
Westminster City Council Tony Ray-Jones, photographer, 1941 - 1972, lived an...
A number of groups related to black music history seem to have come and gone; it's difficult to disentangle them. These links were working in 2021: Black History Month, IRDUK (mentioned on the post...
The AJR provides an extensive range of social and welfare services, and grants financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain. The AJR’s plaque scheme honours p...
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has been administered by the Society ever since.
Area of London, approximately within Bethnal Green, Bow and Stepney Green. It was established to provide for the expanding population of Huguenot and Irish silk weavers. A track running north from ...
From their Twitter page: South London Fawcett Group is a local group of the Fawcett Society which campaigns nationally for equality between women and men.
Detective novelist and playwright. Born in Torquay, into a well-off family, where a bust has been erected, as Agatha Miller. Married Archie Christie in 1914. In WW1 she trained and worked in a p...
Too complex for us to attempt to summarise. We'd welcome a guest contribution.
From Know Your London: "The first parish church existed as a chapel before 1222. It was dedicated to St Catherine and stood on the same site. In 1678 the second parish church of Paddington was buil...
Pilot Officer, 71 Eagle Squadron, American, killed. 2022: Pat Koetz, who was researching for The US Airborne During WW2 kindly contacted us. She sent us this image of Fenlaw and transcribed the bi...
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