•English Heritage has unveiled its 1000th Blue Plaque in London.The plaque – located on a three storey building at number 1, Robert Street in Westminster – marks the former London headquarters of the suffragist organisation, the Women’s Freedom League. The league, which was formed in 1907...
A crown atop a bus stop in Oxford Street, central London. PICTURE:Matt Brown(licensed underCC BY 2.0) A London Underground roundel changed into a “crowndel” ahead of the coronation. PICTURE: diamond geezer(licensed underCC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Share this: A stage erected in Westminster Abbey ...
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LONDON (GBR): World and European long jump champion Greg Rutherford has pulled out of the London Diamond League due to an ongoing ankle problem, informs Reuters. “After some really excellent training this year, the start to the season has been riddled with a series of troublesome injuries, m...
the second year in a row Heath won the 4K race at theGreat Edinburgh Cross Countrymeet in Scotland. Last year, he beatKenenisa BekeleandAsbel Kiprop. This year, he topped Kiprop along withJapheth Korir(the 2013 World Cross Country champion),Bernard Lagatand several other Diamond League ...
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In 1089, the monastery – located about a mile back from the river between Southwark and Rotherhithe – became the Cluniac Priory of St Saviour, an order centred on the French abbey of Cluny, and was endowed by King William II (William Rufus) with the manor of Bermondsey. ...
An upstairs room in the former Red Lion pub, located on the corner with Archer Street, is famous for being where Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were asked to write a program of action for the Communist League, published in 1848 asThe Communist Manifesto. ...
As many as five million people reportedly turned out for the parade along a seven mile route from Knightsbridge (depicted above) through to Westminster and onto Buckingham Palace on Saturday – many of them had arrived from other parts of the country the previous night – and, eager not to ...
This large oak tree, planted in Hyde Park, was a focal point for protests in 1866 by the Reform League, a group which campaigned for all men to have the right to vote. The tree was set alight during one protest (on what date and whether it was as an act of protest or simply an ...