About the Author

English Heritage is a registered charity that looks after the UK's National Heritage Collection. This comprises over 400 of England's history buildings, monuments and sites spanning more than 5,000 years of history.

Reviews

`The blue plaque helps us make poetry from the everyday, infusing the hard materials of the city with the feeling of lives lived: a memory of the past making the present richer.' Antony Gormley, The Guardian | `If people want to find out about our London history, they can go and stand for a minute outside and look at a house where we know that person has lived - I think that's just wonderful.' Dame Judi Dench