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Haberdashers' Girls' School
Haberdashers' Girls' School is a private day school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as "Habs" (or "Habs Girls" to distinguish it from the neighbouring Haberdashers' Boys' School). The school was founded in 1875 by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London. History In 1690, Robert Aske gave the Haberdashers' Company £20,000 to set up a hospital and home for 20 elderly men and a school for 20 boys at Hoxton, just north of the City of London. The school came decidedly second to the home for elderly men. There were no new boys between 1714 and 1739 because the foundation was short of funds. The hospital was rebuilt during 1824–26 and the foundation was reorganised in 1873 when four schools were established: two at Hoxton, and two at Hatcham, New Cross in south-east London. Boys and girls were taught separately at each site. All four schools opened in 1875, the Hoxton schools offered a basic English e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Schools In The United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, private schools (also called independent schools) are schools that require fees for admission and enrolment. Some have financial endowments, most are governed by a board of governors, and are owned by a mixture of corporations, trusts and private individuals. They are independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to State-funded schools (England), state-funded schools. For example, the schools do not have to follow the National Curriculum for England, although many such schools do. Historically, the term ''private school'' referred to a school in private ownership, in contrast to an Financial endowment, endowed school subject to a trust or of charitable status. Many of the older independent schools catering for the 13–18 age range in England and Wales are known as Public school (United Kingdom), public schools, seven of which were the subject of the Public Schools Act 1868. The term ''public school'' meant they were then open to pupils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese School In London
The is a Japanese international school in Acton, London Borough of Ealing. The school is incorporated as . The , a Japanese supplementary school, is a part of the institution. Junko Sakai (酒井 順子 ''Sakai Junko''), author of '' Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora'', described the school as one of the "geographical centres" of London's Japanese community.SakaiPage unstated(PT 67). "Although the Japanese have no precise geographical location for their community, they are connected with each other personally, and one of their geographical centres is the Japanese school in London, previously in North London and now in West Acton." In 1999 the Saturday school programme had three divisions: elementary school for ages 6–12, junior high school for ages 13–15, and senior high school, equivalent to the English sixth-form.Aizawa, p27 The Saturday school uses three campuses: the Acton Campus (アクトン校舎 ''Akut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidisha
Bidisha Mamata (born 29 July 1978), known professionally as Bidisha, is a British TV broadcaster and presenter specialising in international affairs and human rights, political analysis, the arts, and culture. She is also a multimedia artist, making films and stills. Bidisha began writing professionally for style magazines such as '' i-D'', '' Dazed and Confused'', and the ''NME'', at the age of 14, and published her first novel at 18. She writes for ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer'' and works as a TV and radio critic and presenter for the BBC, Sky News, ITN, Channel 5 and CNN. Early life and education Bidisha went to school at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire. In 1999, she graduated in English Language and Literature from St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. She then studied at the London School of Economics, where she gained an MSc in Moral and Political Philosophy and Economic History. Writing Bidisha began writing for arts magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool Wavertree
Liverpool Wavertree is a borough constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1997 and every election since has been won by a Labour Party candidate. It has been represented by Paula Barker since 2019. An earlier constituency of the same name existed between 1918 and 1983, but lay further to the south-east, and was a predominantly Conservative seat. Historic 1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Childwall and Little Woolton, Garston, Much Woolton, Wavertree, and Wavertree West. 1950–1955: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Old Swan, Wavertree, and Wavertree West. 1955–1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Church, and Old Swan. 1997–2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Church, Kensington, Old Swan, and Picton. 2010–2024: The City of Liverpool wards of Childwall, Church, Kensington and Fairfield, Old Swan, Picton, and Wavertree. Current Further to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciana Berger
Luciana Clare Berger, Baroness Berger (; born 13 May 1981) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019, and a Member of the House of Lords since 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative, Labour and Co-operative parties, she was a founding member of The Independent Group, later Change UK, before joining the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats; Berger rejoined Labour in 2023. Born in London, Berger attained degrees at the University of Birmingham and Birkbeck, University of London. She served as a National Executive Committee member of the National Union of Students (United Kingdom), National Union of Students, but resigned to protest against what she considered the committee's apathy towards antisemitism. Berger also joined Labour and served as director of Labour Friends of Israel. Selected as Labour candidate for Liverpool Wavertree—her selection attracted criticism for it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bent
Margaret Bent CBE , (born Margaret Hilda Bassington; 23 December 1940) is an English musicologist who specialises in music of the late medieval and Renaissance eras. In particular, she has written extensively on the Old Hall Manuscript, English masses as well as the works of Johannes Ciconia and John Dunstaple. Biography Bent was educated at the Acton Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls and Girton College, Cambridge University (where she read music, was organ scholar, and is now an honorary fellow), receiving her BA in 1962 and PhD in 1969. She taught at Cambridge and King's College London after 1963, and became a lecturer at Goldsmiths' College in 1972. In 1975 she was appointed professor at Brandeis University and in 1981 at Princeton University, and served as department chair in both. Bent was president of the American Musicological Society (1984–1986), of which she is now a Corresponding Member. She returned to England in 1992 as senior research fellow at All Soul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Bennett
Linda Kristin Bennett (born 8 September 1962) is an English clothing designer and entrepreneur, best known for founding the fashion retailer L.K.Bennett. Early life Born in London, Bennett is the daughter of a London-based fashion retail entrepreneur and an Icelandic sculptor mother. She grew up in North London, North West London, and was educated at Kingsbury Green Primary School, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree and Reading University, where she read Land Management. She then trained as a cordwainer at Hackney's Cordwainers College (now part of the London College of Fashion), and then working for French designer Robert Clergerie, before working on the sales floor of retailers Whistles and Joseph (fashion brand), Joseph. L.K.Bennett Bennett set up her first shop in Wimbledon Village, with a goal to produce "something in-between the designer footwear you find in Bond Street and those on the high street." Bennett designed the Duchess of Cornwall’s wedding sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Bell (scientist)
Florence Ogilvy Bell (1 May 1913 – 23 November 2000), later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an X-ray crystallography, X-ray crystallographer in the lab of William Astbury. In 1938 they published a paper in ''Nature (journal), Nature'' that described the Nucleic acid structure, structure of DNA as a "Pile of Pennies". Early life Florence Ogilvy Bell was born at 47 Hanover Road, Brondesbury Park, London, the second daughter of Thomas Bell and his wife, Annie Mary Lucas. Her father was a photographer and later advertising manager who had been born in Allendale, Northumberland, and later he moved to Greycotes, Ambleside. Florence grew up in London and attended Haberdashers' Aske's girls' school, Haberdashers' Aske Girls School in Acton, London, Acton, where she was Head girl and head boy, head girl. Education Bell studied Natural Sciences (Cambridge), Natural Sciences at Girton College, Cambridge between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Arbuthnott
Emily Frances Alice Arbuthnott (born 3 October 1997) is a British former professional tennis player. Arbuthnott has been ranked as high as world No. 551 in singles and No. 319 in doubles by the WTA. At the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan, she won the bronze medal in women's doubles, along with Olivia Nicholls. At the 2019 Summer Universiade held in Naples, Italy, she won the silver medal in women's singles. She plays for the Stanford University tennis team. Born in Kingston upon Thames, England, Emily's parents are James and Sally, she has two brothers, Bertie and Freddie, and her aunt Joanna Copley played lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ... for England. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups) Doubles: 20 (14 titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Aikman
Laura Holly Aikman (born 24 December 1985) is an English actress. She has appeared in an array of television shows including '' The Mysti Show'' (2004–2005), ''Casualty'' (2009–2010), '' Lemon La Vida Loca'' (2012–2013), ''4 O'Clock Club'' (2012–2014), '' The Job Lot'' (2014–2015), '' Waterloo Road'' (2015) and ''Gavin & Stacey'' (2019 & 2024) Early life Aikman was born in the London Borough of Brent in 1985, the daughter of actor and writer Stuart Aikman (known as Stuart St. Paul) and actress Jean Heard. She grew up in Northwood, Hertfordshire and attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Career In 2009, she appeared in the BBC Three series '' Personal Affairs'' playing Lucy. On 8 August 2009, it was announced that Aikman would be joining the cast of ''Casualty'', and her role as May Phelps started on 12 September 2009. Aikman appeared in 35 episodes, her final appearance aired on 8 May 2010. Aikman also appeared in the original pilot e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England parish church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. Dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, there has been a church on the site since at least the medieval period. This location, at that time, was farmlands and fields beyond the London wall. It became a principal Church of England parish church, parish church west of the old City in the early modern period as Westminster's population grew. When its medieval and Jacobean structure was found to be near failure, the present building was constructed in an influential Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical design by James Gibbs in 1722–1726. The church is one of the visual anchors adding to the open-urban space around Trafalgar Square. History Roman era Excavations at the site in 2006 uncovered a group of burials dating from c A.D. 350, including a sarcophagus burial dating from c. A.D. 410. The site is outside the city limits of Roman London (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
