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Worshipful Company of Stationers

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a Royal Charter of Incorporation.

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Wynkyn de Worde

The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front ...

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Founders' Hall

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3 memorials
Alexander Alfred Yeatman

Alexander Alfred Yeatman

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1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Butchers

Worshipful Company of Butchers

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2 memorials
Alderman Charles Pearce Russell, C.V.O., J.P.

Alderman Charles Pearce Russell, C.V.O., J.P.

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Person, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Event, Theatre

1 memorial
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

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1 memorial
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Arts Council of England / Great Britain

1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up by Royal Charter.  About 1946 it became the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 1994 it was split into national bodies,...

Group, Art

15 memorials
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Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial