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.
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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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Mr Robert S. Watlin
Administrator and Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
John Howard
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...
2 memorials
W. Drummond
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Drummond is the only name on the Putney Pest House plaque given 'Esqr.' rather than 'Mr' or 'Dr'. It clearly is meant to indicate something b...
1 memorial
Dr Barnardo
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
5 memorials
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Sophia Elizabeth Pither
Born Paris, née Bézier. Mother of Francis and Ernest. 1881 widowed and living with her two sons at 51 Thistle Grove, SW7. Dead by 1915.
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Alanbrooke statue
SW1, Whitehall, Raleigh Green
{On the front of the plinth:} Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke {Right side of plinth:} Chief of the Imperial General Staff, KF, GCB...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Helena, Duchess of Albany
Born in Arolsen as Helena Frederica Augusta of Waldeck & Pyrmont. Married, in 1882, Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria. Died in the Tyrol. The photograph was taken at the ...
4 memorials
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