Harry Fox
Fox and Henry Moss both had small factories making fashion garments. They met on a cruise and, inspired by the Lord John boutique on Carnaby Street, decided to open a girls and women's boutique on...
Dr Richard Price
Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and America...
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and former political prisoner. A protégé of murdered Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov. Fol...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Russia
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the ...
Tessa Hunkin
A member of the talented Hunkin family (brother Tim, mother Sally). 1989 Joined Emma Biggs at the Mosaic Workshop. 2011 she set up the Hackney Mosaic Project. We were surprised to see on her websit...
Nathaniel Acton
Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is b...
Arthur Haynes
Comedian. Born in Fulham. In the 1950/60s he was one of the most popular TV performers, but is now virtually forgotten. His television show ran from 1956 - 1966. He appeared in the film 'Strange Be...
Lady Margaret Macdonald Casson
Born as Margaret Macdonald Troup on 26 September 1913 in Pretoria, South Africa, she was the second of the three daughters of Dr James Macdonald Troup (1867-1945) and Alberta Beatrice Caroline Trou...
Person, Craft / Design, Education, Friend / family, South Africa
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