The world's oldest commemorative plaque scheme is celebrating the installation of its 1,000th plaque.
Blue plaque number 1,000 celebrates the Women's Freedom League and is at the building that housed its headquarters in LondonBlue plaque number 1,000 is being unveiled later on Tuesday as the latest addition to what is said to be the oldest such commemorative scheme in the world.
The scheme is only for buildings in London although, during a trial between 2000 and 2005, a total of 34 plaques went up in Liverpool, Birmingham, Southampton and Portsmouth.
Since 2016, when English Heritage launched its plaques for women campaign, more than half of the people awarded plaques have been female.The 1,000th plaque commemorates the Women's Freedom League and is located at the organisation's former headquarters at 1 Robert Street, just off the Strand. There are hundreds of blue plaques around the UK noting significant people and the places they were born, lived, worked, visited or died.
"It's credit to the people who first made it happen in that it had such legs," says Mr Spencer, who welcomes the contribution of other schemes, pointing out that "they can commemorate different people or places that may not come within the English Heritage rules and allow more than the around 12 plaques we ourselves are able to put up each year".
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