Group    From 1875 

Shakespeare Reading Society

Categories: History, Theatre

Active in 1909 with Beerbohm Tree as President.

2018: Via Facebook Roger W. Haworth wrote to say that this organisation is active, with Judi Dench as President. We are pleased to hear that and sorry for all the toil and trouble that our previous misunderstand may have caused.

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Shakespeare Reading Society

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Globe Theatre plaque

This plaque was fixed to the wall of the brewery Barclay, Perkins & Co. ...

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Henry Hallam

Henry Hallam

Historian best known for his books on European history and English constitutional history.

Person, History

1 memorial
Art Start

Art Start

An organisation set up to provide after school activities for children in Edmonton Green Shopping Centre. It now exists to give all members of the community access to high quality arts activities. ...

Group, Art, History

2 memorials
Les Stone

Les Stone

First chairman of the Creekmouth Preservation Society.

Person, History

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
Blackheath Preservation Trust

Blackheath Preservation Trust

One of the oldest building preservation trusts in the United Kingdom. It was founded by members of the newly-formed Blackheath Society as an independent and separate property company. Its original ...

Group, Architecture, Community / Clubs, History

3 memorials

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W. J. Causton

W. J. Causton

Secretary of the British Legion Hornsey in 1929.

Person, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

Poet.  Probably born in East or West Smithfield. Best known for the epic poem 'The Faerie Queene'.  When Queen Elizabeth failed to arrange payment ("a reason") for a poem he wrote: I was promis'd ...

Person, Poetry, Ireland

3 memorials
Sydney Monckton Copeman

Sydney Monckton Copeman

SW10, Redcliffe Gardens, 57

English Heritage Sydney Monckton Copeman, 1862-1947, immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine, lived here.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Eric Percival Bagster
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Orazio Abbott Corte

Orazio Abbott Corte

Private Orazio Abbott Corte was born as Orazio Corte on 27 December 1891 in Turin, Italy, the son of Ferdinando Corte and Maria Corte née Castagneri, a family that hailed from Andorno, Italy. His m...

Person, Italy

War dead, WW1
1 memorial