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Seven Dials, London, the Glossary

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Seven Dials is a road junction and neighbourhood in the St Giles district of the London Borough of Camden, within the greater Covent Garden area in the West End of London.^[1]

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Addlestone

Addlestone is a town in Surrey, England.

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Anne Perry

Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023) was a British writer.

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Asthma

Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard,; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013.

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Benedick Bates

Benedick Bates (born November 1970) is a British actor.

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Brenda Hiatt

Brenda Hiatt is an American, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic adventure novels, including traditional Regency romance, time travel romance, historical novels, contemporary humorous mystery, and most recently young adult science fiction romance.

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Brian Epstein

Brian Samuel Epstein (19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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C. S. Forester

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C.

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Cambridge Theatre

The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929–30 for Bertie Meyer on an "irregular triangular site".

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in the United Kingdom that erupted from 1838 to 1857 and was strongest in 1839, 1842 and 1848.

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City of Vice

City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4.

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Comyn Ching Triangle

Comyn Ching Triangle is a triangular city block at the Seven Dials junction in Covent Garden, London. Seven Dials, London and Comyn Ching Triangle are Covent Garden.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Dodger (novel)

Dodger is a novel written by Terry Pratchett, set in early Victorian London, and inspired by Charles Dickens's character the Artful Dodger.

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Doric order

The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Earlham Street

Earlham Street is a street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden that runs from Shaftesbury Avenue in the west to Neal Street in the east, crossing Seven Dials midway, where it intersects with Monmouth Street, Mercer Street, and Shorts Gardens. Seven Dials, London and Earlham Street are Covent Garden and streets in the London Borough of Camden.

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Edward Pierce (sculptor)

Edward Pierce or Pearce (1630–1695) was a 17th century English sculptor and architectural sculptor.

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Elizabeth Beverley

Elizabeth Beverley (1792 – 19 November 1832, in Lambeth) was a travelling English entertainer and pamphleteer, who sometimes wrote as Mrs.

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Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Fringe theatre

Fringe theatre is theatre that is produced outside of the main theatre institutions, and that is often small-scale and non-traditional in style or subject matter.

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Gnomon

A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow.

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Great Britain road numbering scheme

In Great Britain, there is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Iolanthe

Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882.

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James Paine (architect)

James Paine (1717–1789) was an English architect.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Local government

Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.

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London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a London borough in Inner London, England.

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London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00.

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Lovable rogue

The lovable rogue is a fictional stock character, often from a working-class upbringing, who tends to recklessly defy social norms and social conventions, but who still evokes empathy from the audience or other characters.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Margaret Frere

Margaret Frere (12 August 1863 – 14 March 1961) was a British school manager and welfare worker who established the model for a school care service that was adopted throughout London's elementary schools.

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Mary II

Mary II (30 April 166228 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694.

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Mercer Street, London

Mercer Street is a street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London, England. Seven Dials, London and Mercer Street, London are Covent Garden and streets in the London Borough of Camden.

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Michael Palin

Sir Michael Edward Palin (born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter.

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Monmouth Street

Monmouth Street is a street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London, England. Seven Dials, London and Monmouth Street are Covent Garden and streets in the London Borough of Camden.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Mr.

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Neal's Yard

Neal's Yard is a small alley in London's Covent Garden between Shorts Gardens and Monmouth Street which opens into a courtyard. Seven Dials, London and Neal's Yard are Covent Garden and streets in the London Borough of Camden.

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Nelson's Column

Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built to commemorate Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar over the combined French and Spanish navies, during which he was killed by a French sniper.

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Off West End

Off West End refers to theatres in London which are not included as West End theatres.

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Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98.

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Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (Friederike Charlotte Ulrike Katharina; 7 May 1767 – 6 August 1820) was a Prussian princess by birth and a British princess by marriage.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public space

A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public.

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Regency era

The Regency era of British history is commonly described as the years between and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820.

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Regency romance

Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century.

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Robert Tressell

Robert Phillipe Noonan (17 April 1870 – 3 February 1911), born Robert Croker, and best known by the pen name Robert Tressell, was an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.

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Roddy Frame

Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician.

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Samantha Shannon

Samantha Shannon (born 8 November 1991) is a British author of dystopian and fantasy fiction.

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School social work is a specialized area of social work concerned with the psychosocial functioning of students to promote and maintain their health and well-being while assisting students to access their academic potential.

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Shaftesbury Avenue

Shaftesbury Avenue is a major road in the West End of London, named after The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Seven Dials, London and Shaftesbury Avenue are streets in the London Borough of Camden.

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Shaftesbury plc

Shaftesbury PLC was a British real estate investment trust which invests exclusively in the heart of London's West End.

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Sidhu Moose Wala

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu (11 June 199329 May 2022), known professionally as Sidhu Moose Wala, was an Indian singer and rapper.

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Sketches by Boz

Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836.

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Slammerkin

Slammerkin is a historical fiction novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.

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Smithsonian (magazine)

Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.

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Solar time

Solar time is a calculation of the passage of time based on the position of the Sun in the sky.

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St Giles, London

St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden.

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Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Manassas. As both a solo act and member of three successful bands, Stills has combined record sales of over 35 million albums. He was ranked number 28 in Rolling Stones 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"Rolling Stone 2003-08-27.

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Stills Alone

Stills Alone is the seventh studio album released in 1991 by American musician Stephen Stills.

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Stuart period

The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart.

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Sundial

A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American–born British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator and actor.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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The Bone Season

The Bone Season is a supernatural dystopian novel by British writer Samantha Shannon and is her debut novel.

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The Crystal Egg

"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897.

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The Gentle Touch

The Gentle Touch is a British police procedural drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which began on 11 April 1980 and ran until 24 November 1984.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mercers' Company

The Mercers' Company, or the Worshipful Company of Mercers, is a livery company of the City of London in the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, and ranks first in the order of precedence of the Companies.

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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell.

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The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 24 January 1929 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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Thomas Neale

Thomas Neale (1641–1699) was an English project-manager and politician who was also the first person to hold a position equivalent to postmaster-general of the North American colonies.

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Tower Street, Covent Garden

Tower Street is a street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden. Seven Dials, London and Tower Street, Covent Garden are Covent Garden and streets in the London Borough of Camden.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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WC postcode area

The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area, is a group of postcode districts in central London, England.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, 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 End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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Weybridge

Weybridge is a town in the Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London.

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William III of England

William III (William Henry;; 4 November 16508 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.

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19th-century London

During the 19th century, London grew enormously to become a global city of immense importance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Dials,_London

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