Physician, political theorist, scientist, radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. Murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
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Jean-Paul Marat
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Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
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Tin Pan Alley
‘Tin Pan Alley’ originally, 1885, referred to the section of New York City where music publishers and songwriters were based. In 1920s London music shops congregated in Denmark Street and the term...
1 memorial
Punch magazine
Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house in the Strand, attended by Henry Mayhew, brewery manager Mark Lemon, and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Â The first issue wa...
4 memorials
William Randolph Hearst
Born San Francisco. A self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper man. The model for Citizen Kane.
1 memorial
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821). Was as addicted to books as much as to drink or opium, sometimes renting an extra lodging (which he could not...
1 memorial
John Humffreys Parry
Born Flintshire, Wales.  Came to London in 1807 to train as a lawyer at the Temple. Called to the bar in 1811. But he was unsuccessful in this profession and turned to writing about Welsh history...
1 memorial
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