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Study rooms dedicated for couple who escaped slavery 6 hours ago Library honoring Georgians who worked to build a better future for students In 1848, William and Ellen Craft fled Georgia in disguise — and for 19 years, left the country — to escape slavery and become activists for freedom, literacy and education for Black Americans before and after the Civil War. Nearly 175 years later, their names will be permanently etched at the heart of the birthplace of public higher education in the United States, with two study rooms in the Main Library of the University of Georgia dedicated in the ...

Princess Diana's former apartment located on Coleherne Court would soon receive its very own blue plaque from English Heritage.

English Heritage, an organization that manages more than 400 historic sites in the U.K., recently announced that it will be installing a special plaque at the London apartment where Diana Spencer lived before she married Prince Charles.  Princess Diana is one of six women to be honored with London Blue Plaques installed by English Heritage this year, according to the announcement. On Twitter, Diana’s brother Charles Spencer thanked English Heritage for honoring his sister. "How very lovely that this blue plaque will be going up outside Coleherne Court - thank you, ⁦@EnglishHeritage⁩, ...

Princess Diana's 'Happy Place' Is Becoming an Official Heritage Site — and You Can Visit © Provided by Travel + Leisure Evening Standard/Getty Images Lady Diana Frances Spencer (1961 - 1997), later Princess of Wales, leaving her Earls Court flat in London to go shopping. Princess Diana's former apartment is gaining some very special recognition this year. In early April, English Heritage, a charitable organization that looks after more than 400 historic buildings, monuments, and sites, announced it will be adding one of its famous blue plaques to the one-time home of Princess Diana. As r...

Princess Diana Will Be Honored With a Blue Plaque at Her London Apartment Apr 5, 2021 The plaque will be installed this year, what would have been her 60th birthday year. Diana will be honored alongside anti-slavery campaigner Ellen Craft, fashion designer Jean Muir, divorce law campaigner Caroline Norton, lawyer Helena Normanton, and crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale. Princess Diana will receive a blue plaque in her honor in 2021, the year she would have turned 60, the Guardian reports, as part of charity English Heritage's scheme to install plaques around the U.K. at location...