Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain.
Writer, reformer and pacifist.
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Winifred Holtby
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Brittain & Holtby
English Heritage Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970 Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935 w...
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Rudyard Kipling
Poet and story writer. Born: Bombay, India. Died: London. See Waterloo Free Buffet. 2021: The Guardian reported some updates to English Heritage's information on Kipling: "While his children’s sto...
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2 memorials
A. J. P. Taylor
Historian and broadcaster. Born Alan John Percivale Taylor in Birkdale, Lancashire. A lecturer in modern history at Manchester University and in international history at Oxford. His major works inc...
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Dr Jose Rizal
Writer and national hero of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial times. Born Laguna. Executed by firing squad in Manila. He was in London, working at the British Library, May 1888 to January...
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1 memorial
Christabel, Lady Aberconway
Renowned beauty, cultural socialite and writer. Born as Christabel Mary Melville Macnaghten into a wealthy Irish family, daughter of the criminologist Sir Melville Macnaghten, who investigated the...
1 memorial
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Poet and writer. Born Anna Letitia Aikin at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. She had a successful career at a time when women rarely were professional writers. Her writing includes essays, poems ...
1 memorial
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14 memorials
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4 memorials
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A drinking fountain was erected in Aldersgate Street in 1878 in memory of Robert Besley. It was removed 1934.
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