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A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2).
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A203 road
The A203 is a primary A road in South London.
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A23 road
The A23 road is a major road in the United Kingdom between London and Brighton, East Sussex, England.
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Abdullah el-Faisal
Abdullah el-Faisal (born Trevor William Forrest, also known as Abdullah al-Faisal, Sheikh Faisal, Sheik Faisal, and Imam Al-Jamaikee, born 10 September 1963) is a Muslim cleric who preached in the United Kingdom until he was convicted of stirring up racial hatred and urging his followers to murder Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Americans.
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Admiral Duncan (pub)
The Admiral Duncan is a public house in Old Compton Street, Soho in central London that is well-known as one of Soho's oldest gay pubs.
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Agricultural land
Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans.
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Alabama 3
Alabama 3 are an English band mixing rock, electronic, blues, country, gospel, and spoken word styles, founded in Brixton, London in 1995.
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Alex Wheatle
Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE (3 January 1963) is an award-winning black British novelist of Jamaican heritage, sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the Brixton riots.
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Amenity
In real estate and lodging, an amenity is something considered to benefit a property and thereby increase its value.
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter.
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Andi Sex Gang
Andi Sex Gang (born Andreas McElligott) is the founder, vocalist and main songwriter of the band Sex Gang Children who were a prominent act in the gothic rock movement of the 1980s.
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Anglican Diocese of Southwark
The Diocese of Southwark is one of the 42 dioceses of the Church of England, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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Apostasy
Apostasy (ἀποστασία apostasia, "a defection or revolt") is the formal disaffiliation from, or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910.
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Arthur Beresford Pite
Arthur Beresford Pite (2 September 1861 – 27 November 1934) was a British architect.
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Ashby's Mill
Ashby's Mill, often referred to as simply Brixton Windmill, is a restored grade II* listed tower mill at Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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B Sides and C Sides
B Sides and C Sides is a compilation album by the American punk rock band Rancid.
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Balham
Balham is a neighbourhood of south London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Barbados (Typically Tropical song)
"Barbados" was a UK Number 1 single released in May 1975 by Typically Tropical.
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Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are an English electronic music duo consisting of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe.
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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Big Narstie
Tyrone Lindo (born 16 November 1985), better known by his stage name Big Narstie, is an English singer, rapper and MC.
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Black Cultural Archives
Black Cultural Archives (BCA) was founded in 1981, by educationalist and historian Len Garrison and others.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Bohemian
A Bohemian is a resident of Bohemia, a region of the Czech Republic or the former Kingdom of Bohemia, a region of the former Crown of Bohemia (lands of the Bohemian Crown).
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Bradley McIntosh
Bradley John McIntosh (born 8 August 1981) is an English-Jamaican singer-songwriter and actor.
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Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick
Brian Leonard Paddick, Baron Paddick (born 24 April 1958) is a British politician and retired police officer, currently sitting in the House of Lords as a life peer.
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Brick Lane
Brick Lane (Bengali: ব্রিক লেন) is a street in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.
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British African-Caribbean people
British African Caribbean (or Afro-Caribbean) people are residents of the United Kingdom whose ancestors were primarily indigenous to Africa.
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British Bangladeshi
British Bangladeshis (ব্রিটিশ বাংলাদেশি) are people of Bangladeshi origin who have attained citizenship in the United Kingdom, through immigration and historical naturalisation.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.
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Brixton Hill
Brixton Hill is the name given to a 1 km section of road between Brixton and Streatham Hill in south London, England.
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Brixton Market
Brixton Market comprises a street market in the centre of Brixton, south London, and the adjacent covered market areas in nearby arcades Reliance Arcade, Market Row and Granville Arcade (recently rebranded as 'Brixton Village').
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Brixton Mosque
The Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre (the "Brixton Mosque", or "Masjid ibn Taymeeyah") is a mosque located in Gresham Road in the Brixton area of South London.
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Brixton murals
The Brixton murals are a series of murals by local artists in the Brixton area, in London.
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Brixton railway station
Brixton railway station is a commuter railway station in Brixton, South London, UK.
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Brixton Road
Brixton Road is a road in the London Borough of Lambeth (south London, England), leading from the Oval at Kennington to Brixton, where it forms the high street and then forks into Effra Road and Brixton Hill at St Matthew's church at the junction with Acre Lane and Coldharbour Lane.
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Brixton tube station
Brixton is a London Underground station on Brixton Road in the Brixton district of the London Borough of Lambeth, south London.
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Brockwell Park
Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare (125.53 acres) park located south of Brixton, in Herne Hill and Tulse Hill in South London.
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Bunmi Mojekwu
Bunmi Adaeze Mojekwu is a British actress of Nigerian descent.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).
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C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist.
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Camberwell
Camberwell is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.
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Camden Town
Camden Town, often shortened to Camden (a term also used for the entire borough), is a district of north west London, England, located north of Charing Cross (walking distance).
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Can-I-Bus
Can-I-Bus is the debut album by rapper Canibus, released on September 8, 1998 through Universal Records.
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Candy (Robbie Williams song)
"Candy" is a song by English pop singer, Robbie Williams, released as the lead single from his ninth studio album Take the Crown, on 28 October 2012.
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Canibus
Germaine Williams (born December 9, 1974), better known by his stage name Canibus, is a Jamaican born-American rapper and actor.
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Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.
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Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (frequently shortened to Carter USM) were an English indie rock band formed in 1988 by singer Jim "Jim Bob" Morrison and guitarist Les "Fruitbat" Carter.
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CeeLo Green
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway (born May 30, 1975), known professionally as CeeLo Green (or Cee Lo Green), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor.
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Central London
Central London is the innermost part of London, in the United Kingdom, spanning several boroughs.
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Chase & Status
Chase & Status are an English drum and bass production band composed of Saul Milton (Chase) and Will Kennard (Status).
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Chatham main line
The Chatham main line is a railway line in England that links London Victoria and Dover Priory / Ramsgate, travelling via Medway (of which the town of Chatham is part, hence the name).
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Christ Church, Brixton Road
Christ Church on Brixton Road in Lambeth SW9 is an Art Nouveau and Byzantine Revival Grade II* listed building built in 1902 by Arthur Beresford Pite for his brother-in-law, Rev William Mowll.
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City and South London Railway
The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction.
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City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
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Clapham
Clapham is a district of south-west London lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (most notably Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Clapham Common
Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham, south London.
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Clive Dunn
Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn (9 January 19206 November 2012) was an English actor, comedian, artist, author, and singer.
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Close to You (Maxi Priest song)
"Close to You" is a song by English reggae singer Maxi Priest.
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Coldharbour Lane
Coldharbour Lane is a road in South London that leads south-westwards from Camberwell to Brixton.
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Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service.
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Commissioners' church
A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824.
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Community policing
Community policing, or community-oriented policing, is a strategy of policing that focuses on building ties and working closely with members of the communities.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Corpus Christi Church, Brixton
Corpus Christi Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Brixton, part of the Archdiocese of Southwark within the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Crack cocaine
Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked.
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Cross River Tram
Cross River Tram (formerly Cross River Transit) was a Transport for London (TfL) proposal for a tram system in London.
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Dad's Army
Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.
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Dan Leno
George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era.
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Daniel Mulloy
Daniel Mulloy is a British artist and filmmaker.
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Danny Kirwan
Daniel David Kirwan (13 May 1950 – 8 June 2018) was a British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972.
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Danny Williams (boxer)
Daniel Peter Williams (born 13 July 1973) is a British professional boxer.
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Das Kapital
Das Kapital, also known as Capital.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.
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Department store
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as "departments".
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Dillinja
Dillinja, (born Karl Francis, 1974, Clapham, South London, England) is an English drum and bass DJ, record producer and entrepreneur.
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DJ EBK
EBK is a drum and bass producer and DJ from London, England, with 10 years of releases on influential labels including Renegade Hardware and Dispatch Recordings.
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Don Arden
Don Arden (born Harry Levy; 4 January 1926 – 21 July 2007) was an English music manager, agent, and businessman.
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Drum and bass
Drum and bass (also written as "drum 'n' bass" or "drum & bass"; commonly abbreviated as "D&B", "DnB" or "D'n'B"), is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and jungle scenes in Britain during the early 1990s.
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Dulwich and West Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)
Dulwich and West Norwood is a constituency created in 1997 and represented in the House of Commons by Helen Hayes of the Labour Party since her election in 2015.
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Eaton Green
Eaton Green (born 1967) was a Yardie gang member involved in armed robbery, drug dealing and extortion in South London.
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Eddy Grant
Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese-British musician.
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Electric Avenue
Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London.
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Electric Avenue (song)
“Electric Avenue” is a song written, recorded and produced by Eddy Grant, who released it from his 1982 album Killer on the Rampage. In the United States, with the help of the MTV video he shot for it, it was one of 1983's biggest hits of the year.
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Evelyn Grace Academy
Evelyn Grace Academy (EGA) is a non-selective, coeducational secondary school within the English Academy programme, in Brixton, London.
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Farmers' market
A farmers' market is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.
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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.
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Flying ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
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Frank Reginald Carey
Frank Reginald "Chota" Carey, (7 May 1912 – 6 December 2004) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace who served during World War II.
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Freddie Davies
Freddie Davies (born 21 July 1937) is a British comedian and actor who achieved fame in 1964 via the television programme Opportunity Knocks and has since appeared in several television series and films.
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Fruitbat
Fruitbat (born Leslie George Carter, 12 December 1958, in London) is the stage name of the English musician, most famous for his part in Carter USM.
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Gaia hypothesis
The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
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Gentrification
Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.
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Greater London
Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.
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Greater London Authority
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is a top-tier administrative body for Greater London, England.
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Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.
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Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality.
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Herne Hill
Herne Hill is a district in south London, England, approximately four miles from Charing Cross and bordered by Brixton, Denmark Hill, Dulwich Village, Loughborough Junction and Tulse Hill.
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Hew Locke
Hew Donald Joseph Locke (born 13 October 1959) is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London.
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HM Prison Brixton
HM Prison Brixton is a local men's prison, located in Brixton area of the London Borough of Lambeth, in inner-South London.
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HMT Empire Windrush
HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930.
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House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.
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Housing estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development.
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Hundred of Brixton
Brixton Hundred or the Hundred of Brixton was an ancient hundred in the north east of the county of Surrey, England.
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Iceland (supermarket)
Iceland Foods Ltd (trading as Iceland) is a British supermarket chain, with emphasis on the sale of frozen foods, including prepared meals and vegetables.
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Inner London
Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London.
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Institutional racism
Institutional racism (also known as institutionalized racism) is a form of racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions.
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Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas, MBE (born 5 January 1974) is a Welsh sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 metres, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games.
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Jacobites (band)
Jacobites were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1982 by Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth, following the breakup of their respective previous bands, the Swell Maps and the Subterranean Hawks.
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Jam, Iran
Jam (جم; also Romanized as Jamm; also known as Jām-e Jam) is a city in and capital of Jam County, Bushehr Province, Iran.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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James Dagwell
James Dagwell is a British journalist working predominantly as a senior television news producer in the UK broadcasting industry.
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James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.
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Jeeves
Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as Jeeves, is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse.
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Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is an English conceptual, video and installation artist.
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Jihad
Jihad (جهاد) is an Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim.
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Jo Self
Jo Self (née Lee; born 15 January 1956) is an English contemporary artist and poet.
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Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus (Canolfan byd Gwaith; Ionad Obrach is Eile) is a quango used by the UK Department for Work and Pensions for its working-age support service in the United Kingdom, its services offered directly by the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Joe Cornish
Joseph Murray Cornish (born 20 December 1968) is an English comedian, television and radio presenter, film director, writer and actor, who together with his long-time comedy partner, Adam Buxton, forms the comedy duo Adam and Joe.
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John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.
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John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, (born 21 October 1942) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police Service) from 2000 until 2005.
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Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (28 March 181915 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.
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Kapoor family
The Kapoor family is a prominent Indian show business family with a long history in Hindi cinema, many members of the family have had careers as actors, film directors, and producers.
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Karl Marx
Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.
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Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.
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Kennington
Kennington is a district in south London, England.
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Killer on the Rampage
Killer on the Rampage is an album by Eddy Grant.
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La Roux
La Roux is an English synth-pop act formed in 2006 by singer Eleanor "Elly" Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid.
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Lambeth
Lambeth is a district in Central London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Lambeth London Borough Council
Lambeth London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Lambeth in Greater London, England.
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Lambeth North tube station
Lambeth North is a London Underground station in the neighbourhood of Lambeth, at the junction of Westminster Bridge Road and Baylis Road.
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Laurel Aitken
Lorenzo Aitken (22 April 1927 – 17 July 2005), better known by the stage name Laurel Aitken, was an influential Caribbean singer and one of the pioneers of Jamaican ska music.
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Len Garrison
Lenford Alphonso (Kwesi) Garrison (13 June 1943 – 18 February 2003) was an educationalist and historian whose life's work was to catalogue the development of the black British identity and its history and promote the works of young black writers.
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Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman
Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman (29 July 1911 – 8 December 2004) was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ, born 24 August 1952) is a Jamaican dub poet who has long been based in the UK.
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Lisa Maffia
Lisa Maffia (born Lisa Finch Maffia, 16 June 1979) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, fashion designer, model and presenter, who originally came to the public's attention as the main female member of So Solid Crew.
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List of bus routes in London
This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches).
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List of night buses in London
The London Night Bus network is a series of night bus routes that serve Greater London.
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Little Portugal, London
Little Portugal is an area in South London, specifically around Stockwell, where there is a large Portuguese community.
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Living Marxism
Living Marxism was a British magazine, originally launched in 1988 as the journal of the British Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).
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Local currency
In economics, a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Assembly
The London Assembly is an elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies.
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London Borough of Lambeth
Lambeth is a London borough in south London, England, which forms part of Inner London.
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London Borough of Sutton
The London Borough of Sutton is a London borough in South West London, England and forms part of Outer London.
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London Buses
London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages bus services within Greater London.
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London Buses route 109
London Buses route 109 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Buses route 118
London Buses route 118 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Buses route 133
London Buses route 133 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England, running between Streatham and Liverpool Street stations.
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London Buses route 159
London Buses route 159 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Buses route 2
London Buses route 2 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Buses route 3
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London Buses route 37
London Buses route 37 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Buses route 45
London Buses route 45 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Buses route 59
London Buses route 59 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.
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London Plan
The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Greater London area in the United Kingdom that is written by the Mayor of London and published by the Greater London Authority.
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London Ringways
The London Ringways were a series of four ring roads planned in the 1960s to circle London at various distances from the city centre.
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London Victoria station
Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.
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London, Chatham and Dover Railway
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) was a railway company in south-eastern England created on 1 August 1859, when the East Kent Railway was given Parliamentary approval to change its name.
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Loughborough Junction
Loughborough Junction is an area of South London, in the London Borough of Lambeth, which is located between Brixton, Camberwell and Herne Hill.
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Luol Deng
Luol Ajou Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a Sudanese-born British professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Market garden
A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Martin Millar
Martin Millar is a Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London.
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Max Wall
Max Wall (12 March 1908 – 21 May 1990) was an English comedian and actor, whose performing career covered music hall, theatre, films and television.
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Maxi Priest
Max Alfred "Maxi" Elliott (born 10 June 1961), known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is an English reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent.
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Mayor of London
The Mayor of London is the head of the executive body of the Greater London Authority.
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Metropolitan Police Service
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.
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Miami Heat
The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami.
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Michael Groce
Michael Groce is a poet, community worker and former criminal.
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Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)
Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, cofounder and songwriter for The Clash until his dismissal in 1983.
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Misfits (band)
The Misfits are an American punk rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British slapstick comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and directed by Gilliam and Jones.
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Mooji
Mooji (born Anthony Paul Moo-Young on 29 January 1954) is a spiritual teacher originally from Jamaica.
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Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a black British teenager from Plumstead, south east London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham on the evening of 22 April 1993.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.
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Myatt's Fields South Estate
Myatt's Fields South is a social housing estate located between Brixton Road and Camberwell New Road in South London.
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Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideology of Nazism.
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New Economics Foundation
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British think-tank that aims to help build a "new economy where people are really in control".
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Nikki Sudden
Adrian Nicholas Godfrey (19 July 195626 March 2006), known as Nikki Sudden, was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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No More Idols
No More Idols is the second album by English drum and bass production duo Chase & Status, released on 28 January 2011.
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Noise barrier
A noise barrier (also called a soundwall, noise wall, sound berm, sound barrier, or acoustical barrier) is an exterior structure designed to protect inhabitants of sensitive land use areas from noise pollution.
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Nyron Nosworthy
Nyron Paul Henry Nosworthy (born 11 October 1980) is an English-born Jamaican former footballer.
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O Rappa
O Rappa is a Multi Latin GRAMMY Nominated Brazilian reggae/rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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O2 Brixton Academy
The O2 Academy, Brixton, is one of London's leading music venues, nightclubs and theatres.
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Olive Morris
Olive Elaine Morris (26 June 1952 – 12 July 1979)Emma Allotey,, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2012.
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Operation Trident (Metropolitan Police)
Operation Trident, or simply Trident, is a Metropolitan Police Service unit originally set up in 1998 to tackle gun crime and homicide in London's Afro-Caribbean communities following a series of shootings in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Brent.
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Orphan Black
Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett, starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical people who are clones.
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Orpington railway station
Orpington railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, serving the town of Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London.
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Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (also known as The Prince of Darkness) (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.
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Paul Simonon
Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the punk rock band The Clash.
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PDC (gang)
The PDC (formerly Peel Dem Crew and Poverty Driven Children) was a street gang based in Brixton, mainly the Angell Town Estate.
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Peckham Boys
The Peckham Boys, also referred to as Black Gang, are a gang based in Peckham, South London.
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Picturehouse Cinemas
Picturehouse Cinemas is a network of cinemas in the United Kingdom, operated by Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd and owned by Cineworld.
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Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) (1984 c. 60) is an Act of Parliament which instituted a legislative framework for the powers of police officers in England and Wales to combat crime, and provided codes of practice for the exercise of those powers.
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Police Complaints Authority (United Kingdom)
The Police Complaints Authority (PCA), was an independent body in the United Kingdom with the power to investigate public complaints against the Police in England and Wales as well as related matters of public concern.
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Poly Styrene
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011),, Digital Spy, 26 April 2011 known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was a British musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
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Pop-up restaurant
Pop-up restaurants, also called supper clubs, are temporary restaurants.
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Port of Tilbury
The Port of Tilbury is located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England.
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Portuguese people
Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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R.O.C. (band)
R.O.C are a British electronica group, founded in 1990 by Fred Browning and Patrick Nicholson in London, England.
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Race Today
Race Today was a monthly (later bimonthly) British political magazine.
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Railton Road
Railton Road runs between Brixton and Herne Hill in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Rancid (band)
Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991.
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Richard Reid
Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate an explosive device packed into his shoes while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001.
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Ringway 1
Ringway 1 or the London Motorway Box was the innermost of the series of four motorway standard roads, known as the London Ringways as part of a comprehensive scheme developed by the Greater London Council (GLC) to provide high speed motorway-standard roads within the capital linking a series of radial roads taking traffic into and out of the city.
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Ritzy Cinema
The Ritzy is a cinema in Brixton, London, England.
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River Effra
The River Effra is a converted river or former large stream in south London, England, mainly underground.
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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark (Br) is a Latin Church Roman Catholic archdiocese in England.
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Roman roads
Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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S Club 7
S Club 7 were an English pop group from London created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller consisting of members Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh, and Jon Lee.
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Salafi movement
The Salafi movement or Salafist movement or Salafism is a reform branch or revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that developed in Egypt in the late 19th century as a response to European imperialism.
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Saxons
The Saxons (Saxones, Sachsen, Seaxe, Sahson, Sassen, Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany.
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Scarman Report
The Scarman report was commissioned by the UK Government following the 1981 Brixton riots.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.
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Sex Gang Children
Sex Gang Children are an early gothic rock and post-punk band that formed in early 1982 in Brixton in London, England.
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Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne (Levy; born 9 October 1952) is an English television host, media personality, television talent competition judge, author, music manager, modern impresario, businesswoman, and promoter, and the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne.
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Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band.
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Skatepark
A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, scooter, wheelchair, and aggressive inline skating.
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Skin (musician)
Deborah Anne Dyer (born 3 August 1967), known by the stage name Skin, is an English singer, an electronic music DJ, and occasional model.
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Skunk Anansie
Skunk Anansie are a British rock band whose members include Skin (lead vocals, guitar), Cass (guitar, bass, backing vocals), Ace (guitar, backing vocals) and Mark Richardson (drums and percussion).
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Sneakbo
Agassi Babatunde Odusina (born 25 June 1992), better known by his stage name Sneakbo, is an English rapper.
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So Solid Crew
So Solid Crew are an English garage, grime and hip hop group originating from Battersea, London which achieved wide success in the early 2000s.
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Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.
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South Cross Route
South Cross Route (SCR) was the designation for the southern section of Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic within the capital.
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South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames, and includes the historic districts of Southwark, Lambeth, Bankside and Greenwich.
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Southeastern (train operating company)
London & South Eastern Railway Limited, trading as Southeastern, is a British train operating company owned by the Anglo-French joint venture Govia that provides rail services in South East England.
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Southwyck House
Southwyck House, also known as the "Barrier Block", is a large housing building on the Somerleyton Estate in Brixton, south London.
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St Matthew's Church, Brixton
St Matthew’s Church is a Church of England church in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Stereo MCs
Stereo MCs are a British hip hop/electronic dance group which formed in Clapham, London, in 1985.
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Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture.
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Stockwell
Stockwell is a district in inner south London, England, located in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Stockwell Skatepark
Stockwell Skatepark – aka 'Brixton Bowls' or 'Brixton Beach' – is a concrete skatepark situated on the corner of Stockwell Park Walk and Stockwell Road in the borough of Lambeth in South London.
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Streatham
Streatham is a district in south London, England, mostly in the London Borough of Lambeth but with some areas to the west stretching out into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Streatham (UK Parliament constituency)
Streatham is a constituency created in 1918 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Chuka Umunna, a Labour Party MP.
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Street crime
Street crime is a loose term for any criminal offense in a public place.
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Street light
A street light, light pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.
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Surrey
Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.
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Sus law
In England and Wales, the sus law (from "suspected person", see below) was the informal name for a stop and search law that permitted a police officer to stop, search and potentially arrest people on suspicion of them being in breach of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.
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SW postcode area
The SW (South Western) postcode area, also known as the London SW postcode area, is a group of postcode districts covering part of southwest London, England.
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Takfir
Takfir or takfeer (تكفير) is a controversial concept in Islamist discourse, denoting excommunication, as one Muslim declaring another Muslim as a non-believer (kafir).
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Terraced house
In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.
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The Clash
The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.
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The Columbo Group
The Columbo Group is a hospitality and entertainment company that maintains various properties; mostly nightclubs and restaurants, as well as an annual music festival.
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The First Domino
The First Domino is an English play about a fictional terrorist bomber, written by Jonathan Cash, who was injured in the 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, London by David Copeland.
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The Fridge
The Fridge was a nightclub in the Brixton area of South London, founded by Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington, who had run the Roxy during punk music's heyday in 1977.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Guns of Brixton
"The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Jam
The Jam were an English mod revival/punk rock band during the 1970s and early 1980s, which formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, in the county of Surrey.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American suspense thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day.
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The Streets
The Streets is an English alternative hip hop music group from Birmingham, England, led by the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.
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The Windmill, Brixton
The Windmill is a pub and live music venue in Brixton, London, England, with a reputation for championing new music.
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Time Out Group
Time Out Group is a British media company which is publisher of magazines and travel guidebooks covering events, entertainment and culture in cities around the world.
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Tom Major-Ball
Tom Major-Ball (18 May 1879 – 27 March 1962) was a British music hall and circus performer.
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Transition town
The terms transition town, transition initiative and transition model refer to grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
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Transport for London
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London, England.
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Tulse Hill
Tulse Hill is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in south London, England.
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Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist.
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Typically Tropical
Typically Tropical were a British band, best known for their 1975 number one hit record "Barbados".
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United Kingdom census, 2011
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.
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Upper Norwood
Upper Norwood is an area of southeast London within the London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark.
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Urban decay
Urban decay (also known as urban rot and urban blight) is the process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.
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Val Shawcross
Valerie Shawcross CBE is a Labour Co-operative politician and Deputy Mayor of London for Transport.
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Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency)
Vauxhall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
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Vauxhall Bridge
Vauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London.
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Victoria line
The Victoria line is a London Underground line that runs between in south London and in the north-east, via the West End.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
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Violette Szabo
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a French/British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross.
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Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs 2 (stylized as WATCH_DOGS 2) is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
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West End of London
The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is an area of Central and West London in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.
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West Indian
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).
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West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Windrush Square
Windrush Square is an open public space in the centre of Brixton, south London, occupying an area in front of the Brixton Tate Library that was originally known as the Brixton Oval, and then Tate Gardens.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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Worcester Park
Worcester Park is a suburban town in south west London, covering both the extreme north-west of the London Borough of Sutton in Greater London (east of the railway line that runs through the area) and the northernmost part of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey (west of the railway).
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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X-Ray Spex
X-Ray Spex were an English punk band from London that formed in 1976.
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Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي,; born May 30, 1968) is a French citizen who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the September 11 attacks.
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1981 Brixton riot
The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a confrontation between the Metropolitan Police and protesters in Lambeth, South London, England, between 10 and 12 April 1981.
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1985 Brixton riot
The Brixton riot of 1985 started on 28 September in Lambeth in South London.
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1995 Brixton riot
The Brixton riots of 1995 began on 13 December after the death of a black 26-year-old, Wayne Douglas, in police custody.
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1999 London nail bombings
The 1999 London nail bombings were a series of bomb explosions in London, England.
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7 July 2005 London bombings
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks in London, United Kingdom, which targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the morning rush hour.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton
