At the rear of Burlington House in Picadilly, London are a number of statues of great scientists and philosophers including humanists Jeremy Bentham (over the door, by John Durham), Adam Smith (ground floor west side, by William Theed) and David Hume (above, western balustrade, by Matthew Noble).
Burlington House was originally a private mansion in the Palladian style, [...]
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Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery contains a reconstruction of novelist George Eliot’s London drawing room of 1870 and many of her personal items as well as local history exhibitions.
The museum holds collections related to the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth.
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The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London.
Gallery 22
Its gallery number 22 contains busts of a number of ancient Greek thinkers and writers who are part of the humanist tradition.
Socrates (469-399 BCE), whose freethinking scepticism brought him into conflict with authoritarian political forces of the day and led to his [...]
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Novelist George Eliot was baptised (as Mary Ann Evans) at Chilvers Coton Church, Nuneaton.
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Henry Hethrington and Robert Owen are buried here.
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Philosopher Jeremy Bentham lived for forty years in a house on the site now occupied by the Ministry of Justice (102 Petty France).
The house, in what came to be called Queen’s Square Place, was bequeathed to Bentham by his father Jeremiah on his death in 1792. Jeremiah had first rented the house in May 1763 [...]
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As well as having some of the specimens Darwin collected, The Manchester Museum was opened by The University of Manchester (formerly Owens College), following advice from the scientist T.H. Huxley.
The Museum building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (who also designed the Natural History Museum in London) and reflects Charles Darwin’s evolutionary principles.
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Imperial College, London features a bust of T.H. Huxley.
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This was the birthplace and childhood home of Alan Turing, pioneer of computer science.
On 23 June 1998, on what would have been Turing’s 86th birthday, Andrew Hodges, his biographer, unveiled an official English Heritage Blue Plaque here.
Visiting
2 Warrington Crescent is now the Colonnade Hotel.
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