Document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee that drafted it and our image shows her holding the Spanish language version.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Human Rights tree
Tulip Tree Planted 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing by the Un...
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Metropolitan Asylums Board
A campaign by Florence Nightingale and Edwin Chadwick led to the establishment of this board. It dealt with London's sick poor (but excluding those in Penge, for some reason), those with infectio...
1 memorial
St Marylebone Almshouses
Funded from Count Woronzow's will. Built in 1836 and then re-built on the same site in 1965. Occupy the west corner at the junction of St John’s Wood Terrace and Woronzow Road. Lots more info at...
1 memorial
Lady Walston
Chairman of the Pulford Street Site Committee. Her generosity enabled the building of a new social centre (Walston House) on the Tachbrook Estate. We haven't managed to prove it but we believe th...
Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, USA
1 memorial
Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association / Gateway
From British History on-line: "The Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association was formed in 1926 by an Industrial Housing Fellowship Group. It was supported by the Poplar Ruridecanal {sic} C...
3 memorials
Hoxton Market Christian Mission
Founded by John and Lewis Burtt. Described by Charles Booth as a "soup kitchen and refuge for the poor". Janet Seale wrote to us in 2013: "I used to attend Sunday School at Hoxton Market Christian ...
1 memorial
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Frances Power Cobbe
Irish social reformer and suffragist. Writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the Nati...
1 memorial
Josiah Charles Stamp
Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. Born Hampstead/Kilburn (depending on source). 1926 he became the fir...
1 memorial
Havelock statue
WC2, Trafalgar Square
This was the first statue ever to be made from a photograph. There is a copy at Mowbray Park, Sunderland.
War dead | Other war
16 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
16 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Lidice
E8, Mare Street, Lidice Rose Garden
This rose garden was planted in 1947, just 5 years after the massacre. There is possibly also another plaque (that we missed) commemorati...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
Lawyer and statesman. Born 3 Bury Street, died at home at 32 Curzon Street. 2018: A critical Londonist article gives: "A government enquiry found the politician Rufus Isaacs guilty of 'grave impro...
1 memorial
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