“It matters which historical figures we remember in our public spaces”
HAVE A HABIT: WHENEVER I PASS A HOUSE sporting a blue plaque, I have to stop and look - and I always learn something. The other day, as I hurried down a familiar street in London’s Fitzrovia district, a flash of blue caught my eye. I paused to read that: “Young Charles Dickens twice lived in this house 1815-16 and 1828-31,