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ARCHON code: 1971
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Businesses (13)
- Aldwych Theatre Westminster, Middlesex
- All Out Productions Ltd, London London
- Baring Brothers & Co Ltd, merchant bank London
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Newcastle Tarset, Northumberland;Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- British Broadcasting Corporation London;Bedford, Bedfordshire
- British Broadcasting Corporation: World Service
- Jazz FM
- Margaret Ramsay Ltd, literary agents London
- Pascal Theatre Company
- Rough Trade Records London
- Royal Court Theatre, London London
- Royal National Theatre London
- Siobhan Davies Studios and dance company
Organisations (19)
- Central School of Speech and Drama
- Disability Rights Commission United Kingdom
- Forced Entertainment, performance group Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Institute of Historical Research
- Leverhulme Trust
- Methodist Church Overseas Division
- Middlesex University
- Monmouth Union Monmouth, Monmouthshire
- Open University
- Pioneers of Qualitative Research
- Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre company Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
- Runnymede Trust London
- Shinkansen, experimental perfomance unit London
- Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects
- The London Centre for International Storytelling Ltd London
- Unfinished Histories, oral history project
- Union Society, Cambridge Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- University and College Union
- Womens Royal Voluntary Service London
Persons (45)
- Allen, Steve, (fl1960-1979), radio producer (BBC)
- Andrzejewski, Bogumil Witalis, (b 1922), Polish Linguist
- Aratoon, Angela, (c1950-2010), poet
- Behan, Brendan, (1923-1964), author and playwright
- Blair, Eric Arthur, (1903-1950), novelist and journalist
- Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, (1931-2002), librarian and bibliographer
- Brett, Dorothy, (1883-1977), artist
- Caplan, Pat, (b1942), anthroplogist
- Carr, Ian, (b1933), jazz musician and author Dumfries, Dumfriesshire
- Carter, Angela Olive, (1940-1992), author and journalist
- Chagrin, Francis, (1905-1972), Anglo-Romanian composer
- Chandan, Amarjit, (b 1946), poet
- Davies, Hugh, (1943-2005), composer, instrument maker and musicologist
- Day, Terry, (b 1940), musician
- Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenaus, (b 1928), ethologist
- Empson, William, (1906-1984), Poet and Professor of English Literature
- Gysin, Brion, (1916-1986), poet and performance artist
- Harrod, Tanya, (c1950-2010), art and design historian
- Hornick, Neil, (c1940-2010), actor and performer London
- Julyan, Alex, (b1962), multimedia artist
- Kent, Barry, (b1932), broadcaster
- Lambirth, Andrew, (c1950-2010), journalist, art critic
- Montague, Stephen, (b1943), composer
- Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, (1900-1979), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet
- Musgrave, Thea, (b1928), composer
- O'Casey, Sean, (1880-1964), playwright and writer
- Oswin, Cindy, (c1980-1980), writer, performer and archivist
- Peart, David Anthony, (1934-2006), transport enthusiast
- Pinter, Harold, (1930-2008), CBE, actor and playwright Hackney, Middlesex
- Raeburn, Christopher, (1928-2009), record producer, Decca Records
- Ramsay, Margaret Francesa, (1908-1991), theatre and literary agent Australia
- Saint-Denis, Michel Jacques, (1897-1971), actor, director, drama teacher
- Simpson, Robert Wilfred Levick, (1921-1997), composer
- Soper, Donald Oliver, (1903-1998), Baron Soper, Methodist minister
- Swain, Freda, (1902-1985), composer
- Tawney, Cyril, (1930-2005), folk singer Gosport, Hampshire
- Terlezki, Stefan, (1927-2006), Conservative MP
- Tynan, Kathleen Jeannette Halton, (1937-1995), journalist, author and screenwriter
- Webb, Fr Anthony Damian, (1918-1990), Benedictine monk
- Webb, Geoff, (c1950-2010), activist, independent living for the disabled
- Wesker, Sir Arnold, (1932-2016), Knight, playwright
- White, Sir George, (1854-1916), Knight, businessman
- Whitehead, Andrew, (c1950-2010), political journalist
- Widdess, David Richard, (b1951), Professor of Musicology
- Willey, Stephen, (b1970), historian, performance poetry
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