The agreement in which Britain acknowledged the United States to be sovereign and independent. Drafted in 1782 and effective from 12 May 1784. The 6 men named on the memorial were the representatives, 3 from each country, who negotiated the treaty. It was signed on 3 September 1783 by Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Hartley.
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Treaty of Paris
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Alfred Nobel
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
1 memorial
Brian Haw
Brian William Haw was a protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years from June 2001 in a peace camp in London's Parliament Square, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. B...
1 memorial
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, logician, essayist, social critic and campaigner for peace. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was third Earl Russell. Born Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire. A bad start in life - his...
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Gerald Holtom
Artist and designer of the peace symbol in 1958. Graduated from the Royal College of Arts. Conscientious objector in WW2. In 1958 he was working for the Ministry of Education. On 21 February 1958 ...
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local prot...
32 memorials
Marchmont Association
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surrounding area for the benefit of residents, businesses and visitors and to promote community spirit and a sense of shared res...
27 memorials
River Effra
At the Brockwell Lido plaque there is an information board which begins by explaining the function of stink pipes: "What is a stink pipe? The lofty green pipe behind you is a Victorian stink pipe, ...
17 memorials
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
403 memorials
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