Born at the Whittington Hospital to Jamaican parents and and grew up in Twyford House on the Blackstock council estate. Best known for her novels 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song'. She wrote from the perspective of the Windrush generation.
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Andrea Levy
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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy, 1956 - 2019, novelist and chronicler of the British Caribbean ex...
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John Buchan
Author and Governor-General of Canada. Born at Perth, Scotland. He entered the diplomatic service, becoming private secretary to the High Commissioner for Southern Africa. Created Baron Tweedsmuir ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Canada, Scotland, South Africa
1 memorial
Sir Thomas More
Born Milk Street. In conflict with Henry VIII over religion he was imprisoned in the tower, found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. Final words: "The King's good servant, but God's Firs...
Person, Execution, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
17 memorials
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born Edinburgh's New Town. Never a well man, he tried living in various places looking for a climate that would suit: Bournemouth, France, New York State. He died on a small Samoan island in the Pa...
1 memorial
Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
6 memorials
Geoffrey Chaucer
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate (1374-86) as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Cante...
12 memorials
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