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Alderman Bishop

Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905.

Person, Politics & Administration

Black Consciousness Movement of Azania

Organisation that was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). An anti-apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s after the banning of the African ...

Group, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, South Africa

Blackshirts

See Oswald Mosley.

Group, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

Baroness Blackstone

Person, Politics & Administration

H. E. Blair

Tramways manager for West Ham depot, 1905.

Person, Politics & Administration

Tony Blair

Prime Minister.  Born Edinburgh.

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Scotland

J. A. Blake, GM, MBE

Person, Politics & Administration

Hubert Bland

Journalist and socialist. Born at 22 Wood Street, Woolwich. He married the author Edith Nesbit in 1880. Although she was pregnant, he divided his time between her and his widowed mother and her pai...

Person, Politics & Administration

Sir Thomas Bloodworth

As Lord Mayor of London 1665-6 he was sorely tested and found wanting.  As the fire advanced he alone had the authority to create fire-breaks by demolishing buildings but he refused to make such an...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

D. Boddington

Church warden of St Dunstans Stepney, 1999.

Person, Politics & Administration