Blue Plaques scheme

GPTKB entity

Statements (62)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf commemorative scheme
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:criteria person must have been dead for at least 20 years
building must survive in a form the commemorated person would have recognized
gptkbp:focus commemorating notable events
commemorating notable people
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Blue Plaques scheme
gptkbp:inception 1866
gptkbp:location gptkb:London
gptkbp:marking blue ceramic plaque
gptkbp:notablePlaques gptkb:Ada_Lovelace
gptkb:Agatha_Christie
gptkb:Alan_Turing
gptkb:Benjamin_Franklin
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Diana,_Princess_of_Wales
gptkb:Emmeline_Pankhurst
gptkb:Florence_Nightingale
gptkb:George_Orwell
gptkb:Jimi_Hendrix
gptkb:John_Lennon
gptkb:Karl_Marx
gptkb:Mahatma_Gandhi
gptkb:Marie_Curie
gptkb:Oscar_Wilde
gptkb:Sigmund_Freud
gptkb:Sir_Alexander_Fleming
gptkb:Sir_Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Sir_John_Betjeman
gptkb:Sir_Laurence_Olivier
gptkb:Sir_William_Henry_Perkin
gptkb:Sir_William_Ramsay
gptkb:Sir_Winston_Churchill
gptkb:Sylvia_Pankhurst
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Thomas_Hardy
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:William_Blake
gptkb:William_Makepeace_Thackeray
gptkb:William_Morris
gptkb:William_Wilberforce
gptkb:Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
gptkb:Zadie_Smith
gptkb:Dame_Judi_Dench
gptkb:Sir_Edward_Elgar
gptkb:William_Butler_Yeats
gptkb:Sir_William_Wallace
gptkb:Sir_Charles_Darwin
gptkb:Sir_Michael_Faraday
gptkb:Sir_William_Wilberforce
over 900
Samuel Pepys
Sir Joseph Bazalgette
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:English_Heritage
gptkbp:previousOwner gptkb:London_County_Council
gptkb:Society_of_Arts
gptkb:Greater_London_Council
gptkbp:purpose marking buildings associated with famous people
gptkbp:website https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Royal_Society_for_the_Encouragement_of_Arts,_Manufactures_and_Commerce
gptkb:Leeds_Civic_Trust
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6