1826

University College London (UCL)

The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the first not to discriminate on race, class or religion, and the first to accept women on equal terms. Jeremy Bentham was not its founder but was its spiritual father.

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University College London (UCL)

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Brown Dog statue

See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affai...

Brown Dog statue - original - lost

The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...

Sarah Parker Remond

Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...

Zachary Macaulay - WC1

Zachary Macaulay FRS, 1768 - 1838, anti-slavery activist, statistician, one o...

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University College London (UCL)

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Bentham in Queen Anne's Gate

Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, 1748 - 1832, lived in a house on th...

Gregory Foster

By resolution of the University College Committee of the Sixth of June 1933 t...

UCL quad - creation

This quadrangle of University College London, of which the first stone was la...

UCL - WW1

This inscription is placed here to perpetuate the memory of the members of th...

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Morley College

This college has its origins in the temperance Royal Victoria Coffee and Music Hall. In 1882, using the back-stage and the dressing rooms of the theatre, Emma Cons introduced Tuesday “penny” lectur...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

3 memorials

Hisanari Machida

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial

Alex Pascal

Alex Pascall, OBE is a British broadcaster, journalist, musician, composer, oral historian and educator. Based in Britain for more than 50 years, he was one of the developers of the Notting Hill Ca...

Person, Community / Clubs, Education, History, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, TV & Radio, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial

Drew Theological Seminary

In Madison, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Group, Education, Religion, USA

1 memorial

Joshua Watson

Philanthropist, educationalist and prominent lay churchman. Born Tower Hill. Went into his father's wine merchant business. 1811 he took the house at Clapton. A leading member of the "Hackney P...

Person, Education, Philanthropy, Religion

1 memorial