"stand alongside a slew of white men in Parliament Square is proof of how much England itself has moved away from Winston Churchill's views on racism and imperialism."" Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square The statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, is a work by the sculptor Philip Jackson. In July 2014, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, George Osborne, announced while on a visit to India that a statue of Mahatma Gandhi would be placed in Parliament Square, Westminster. He said that ""I hope this new memorial will be a lasting and fitting tribute"
"Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of the former British prime minister Winston Churchill, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones. It is located on a spot referred to in the 1950s by Churchill as ""where my statue will go"". It was unveiled by his widow Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill in 1973, at a ceremony attended by the serving Prime Minister and four former Prime Ministers, while Queen Elizabeth II gave a speech. The statue is one of twelve on or around Parliament Square, most of well-known statesmen. The statue is"
"Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square The statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. Originally proposed to Mandela by Donald Woods in 2001, a fund was set up and led by Woods's wife and Lord Richard Attenborough after the death of Woods. The Mayor of London fought for permission from Westminster City Council to locate the statue on the north terrace of Trafalgar Square, but after an appeal it was located in Parliament Square instead where it was unveiled on 29 August 2007. The"
"Statue of Millicent Fawcett The statue of Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist leader and social campaigner, in Parliament Square, London, is a 2018 work by the Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing. Following a campaign and petition by the activist Caroline Criado Perez, the statue's creation was endorsed by both the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. The statue, Parliament Square's first monument to a woman and also its first sculpture by a woman, was funded through the government's Centenary Fund, which marks 100 years since some women won the right to vote."
"Square alongside the statues of other important figures including Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Disraeli, South African prime minister, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, and Winston Churchill. The statue was unveiled by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 29 August 2007, in a ceremony held in Parliament Square. Among the attendees were Nelson Mandela, his wife Graça Machel, and Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. In a speech, Mandela said that it fulfilled a dream for there to be a statue of a black man in Parliament Square. Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square The statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, London, is"
"Statue of Robert Peel, Parliament Square The statue of Robert Peel in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of Sir Robert Peel, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was sculpted by Matthew Noble and was one of the first three statues to be placed in the square. The statue of Sir Robert Peel by sculptor Matthew Noble stands in Parliament Square facing Great George Street in the south-west corner of the square. It is a bronze statue on a granite plinth, and is Grade II listed. In 1871, it was proposed that three statues of Sir"
"""English Quarter"" of Oslo, Norway; and in British Place, New Orleans, USA. All were cast in London by Meridian Sculpture Foundry. Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of the former British prime minister Winston Churchill, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones. It is located on a spot referred to in the 1950s by Churchill as ""where my statue will go"". It was unveiled by his widow Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill in 1973, at a ceremony attended by the serving Prime Minister and four former Prime Ministers, while Queen Elizabeth II"
"Singh on Partition Remembrance Day, 17 August 2017. She is also a Trustee with the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust, in which she helped to set up the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Westminster Square in London. While the government allotted the space, the charity, chaired by Lord Meghnad Desai, had to raise the money for it. The statue was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister David Cameron and the Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley, in 2015. Later in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also paid his respects at the Gandhi Statue on his visit to the UK, accompanied by"
"Pankhurst or Emily Davison. On 24 April 2018, the statue was unveiled in an hour-long ceremony featuring the Prime Minister, the Mayor of London, schoolchildren and choirs. The unveiling itself was performed by three generations of women and girls: Jennifer Loehnis (a descendant of Fawcett), Criado Perez, Justine Simons (Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries) and two schoolgirls from Millbank Academy in Westminster, and Platanos College, Lambeth. At the event, May credited the work of Fawcett not only achieving votes for women but for allowing her and other female MPs to take their positions in Parliament. Criado Perez called"
"Statue of George V, Westminster The statue of George V in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London, is a sculpture of George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. The statue was sculpted prior to the Second World War and was hidden in a quarry during the war years. Other locations were suggested for the statue, including Parliament Square, but it was unveiled opposite the House of Lords in 1947. The statue stands high and is made of Portland stone. It is located south of The Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey and opposite the House"
"Parliament Square is still a male-only zone, and I’m thrilled that this is soon to change thanks to Caroline’s inspired campaign"". The statue was unveiled on 24 April 2018 for the commemoration of the extension of the franchise to women in 1918 - though this extension was at first on unequal terms to men. On the plinth of the statue are the names and pictures of 55 women (and 4 men) who fought for women’s right to vote. For her successful activism over depicting women on bank notes, Criado-Perez won the human rights campaigner of the year award from the"
"""Pearl of Freedom"", telling the story of Davison's suffragette struggles, was premiered. The music was by the composer Joanna Marsh; the librettist was David Pountney. In 1990 the Labour MPs Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn placed a commemorative plaque inside the cupboard in which Davison had hidden eighty years earlier. In April 2013 a plaque was unveiled at Epsom racecourse to mark the centenary of her death. In January 2017 Royal Holloway, University of London announced that its new library would be named after her. The statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in April 2018, features Davison's"
"the statue's site was prepared for it. The statue was placed in the original proposed spot opposite the House of Lords, which required the demolition of No. 5 Old Palace Yard. It was unveiled by King George VI, on 22 October 1947 and was attended by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. In 1968, the symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was drawn on the side of the plinth, provoking the question of its removal to be raised by Dudley Smith MP in the House of the Commons. Statue of George V, Westminster The statue of"
"Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture 2017. The second commemorated Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole and was sited in front of St Thomas' Hospital in London. Both of these were unveiled at a time when the paucity of monuments to women across the country was being publicly discussed. In November 2017 Jennings' statue of George Orwell was unveiled outside Broadcasting House, headquarters of the BBC, in London. The National Portrait Gallery in London has three portraits by Jennings; Edward Heath, Philip Pullman and Lord Bingham. The National Portrait Gallery collection has a 2001 photographic portrait of Jennings by Norman"
"Criado Perez stated that she backed Millicent Fawcett as the subject of the statue, adding that ""It's shocking that she doesn’t already have a statue of her own – and Parliament Square is the obvious place for her to be. Not round the corner, or up the road. Nothing less than Parliament Square will do."" On 2 April 2017, it was announced that a statue of Fawcett would be erected in Parliament Square. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, said following the announcement, ""The example Millicent Fawcett set during the struggle for equality continues to inspire the battle against the burning"
"British royal family. On 10 May 2016, to launch the campaign, an open letter was written to the new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, signed by 42 prominent women, requesting a statue of a suffragette in Parliament Square by February 2018. Khan quickly agreed to a new suffragette statue, but did not commit to Parliament Square and instead said that the authorities would ""explore a suitable site for the statue"". An online petition for the suffragette statue received 74,000 signatures. This was presented to Parliament on 7 June, in an event hosted by the Fawcett Society. At the same time,"
"of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher erected in Parliament Square. The Council turned down the application as it did not meet the 10 year rule (that a minimum of 10 years have to pass following the subject's death) and that the Thatcher family opposed the design. Other statues of Thatcher exist in London: the one in the Guildhall was decapitated in 2002, and the following year another was commissioned for the interior of the Palace of Westminster. Others commented that the location was the appropriate one, but that the statue should be of someone more radical: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia"
"Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square The statue of George Canning in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, is an 1832 work by Sir Richard Westmacott. The bronze sculpture depicts the British Prime Minister larger than life size, swathed in a long robe and a cloak, holding a scroll in his left hand, similar to a classical statue of an orator from Ancient Roman, although his legs are covered with modern trousers and he has laced shoes on his feet. The statue stands on a granite plinth which bears the inscription ""GEORGE CANNING"". The statue was first erected near St Margaret's, Westminster,"
"remained in Parliament Square. Later, the Court of Appeal overturned this ruling, forcing Haw to apply for police authorisation to continue his protest. The square is home to twelve statues of British, Commonwealth and foreign political figures. They are listed here in anti-clockwise order, beginning with Winston Churchill's statue which faces Parliament. The Parliament Square Peace Campaign is a peace campaign started by Brian Haw in 2001 and carried on by Barbara Tucker. In May 2010, a peace camp known as Democracy Village was set up on the square to protest (initially) against the British government's involvement in invasions in"
"2015. A statue of George Orwell, sculpted by the British sculptor Martin Jennings, was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with the following phrase: ""If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"". These are words from his proposed preface to ""Animal Farm"" and a rallying cry for the idea of free speech in an open society. Jacintha Buddicom's account, ""Eric & Us"", provides an insight into Blair's childhood. She quoted his sister Avril that"
"Statue of George Orwell A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with Orwell's words ""If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"", from an unused preface to ""Animal Farm"". The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, said of Orwell and the statue that ""He reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" on a room he had worked in whilst"
"Borough of Lambeth with the support of London-based Pakistani-Muslim community and British Indian community of, South London. He met the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 24 March 2015 and persuaded him to unveil the statue during his state visit to the UK. The Prime Minister of India on the request of Dr Patil unveiled the statue of Basaveshwara over looking the big ben bell and British Parliament on 14 November 2015. Dr Patil as the Chairman of the Basaveshwara Foundation hosted the 885th Birth Anniversary of Basaveshwara at the Albert Embankment and invited the Prime Minister of India"
"by the former Prime Minister David Cameron, the former MP Neil Thorne, the Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom and the first female Speaker of the House of Commons Betty Boothroyd. An existing statue of Pankhurst, the Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial, has stood in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Palace of Westminster since 1958. The Pankhurst campaign had initially sought to move this statue into Parliament Square, but discovered that it was too small to be placed there. The campaign commissioned sculptor Angela Conner to produce a tall statue of Pankhurst. Discussions were held about installing"
"Selected Parkett Artists' Editions"" from 1984–2013 Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland (9 February-11 March 2013) On 30 October 2014 her sculpture ""A Real Birmingham Family"" was unveiled in front of the Library of Birmingham. On 24 April 2018, her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in London's Parliament Square; it is the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square. This makes Wearing the first woman to create a statue that is in Parliament Square. Wearing lives and works in London with her partner, British artist Michael Landy. Gillian Wearing Gillian Wearing OBE RA (born 1963) is an English"
"Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Palace of Westminster) The statue of Margaret Thatcher inside the Houses of Parliament, London, is a bronze sculpture of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was ordered in 2003 following a change in rules to allow the depiction of living Prime Ministers in Parliament under certain conditions. It was unveiled by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, on 21 February 2007. The statue is high, and made in bronze. The design of the statue is intended to show Margaret Thatcher during her final term as Prime Minister"
"formal presentation at Central Hall, Westminster, where Prime Minister David Lloyd George accepted the gift on behalf of the people of Britain; after a procession to Parliament Square, the statue was unveiled by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. The Mexico City statue was presented by United States President Lyndon Johnson to the people of Mexico in 1964. Later, Johnson received a small copy of the bust from the statue, which since then is often seen displayed in the Oval Office of the White House. In 2016, a newly cast replica of the full-height statue was installed in the garden at"
"II listed building in 1970. Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square The statue of George Canning in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, is an 1832 work by Sir Richard Westmacott. The bronze sculpture depicts the British Prime Minister larger than life size, swathed in a long robe and a cloak, holding a scroll in his left hand, similar to a classical statue of an orator from Ancient Roman, although his legs are covered with modern trousers and he has laced shoes on his feet. The statue stands on a granite plinth which bears the inscription ""GEORGE CANNING"". The statue was first"
"left leg advanced, as if walking forward. The statue stands on a pedestal of granite from South Africa, which bears the inscription . After Winston Churchill won the 1951 UK general election in October 1951, he proposed erecting a statue in Parliament Square as a memorial to Smuts, who had died in September 1950. Churchill retired as prime minister in 1955, and was too ill to perform the unveiling in November 1956; it was unveiled instead by the Speaker of the House of Commons, William Morrison. The statue became a Grade II listed building in 1970. Statue of Jan Smuts,"
"2017 for repair after being vandalised. John F. Kennedy Memorial, London A memorial bust of John F. Kennedy stands on the Marylebone Road in London, England, to the west of Great Portland Street underground station. A work of the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, it was unveiled on 15 May 1965 by the subject's brother, Robert F. Kennedy. The bronze bust is set on a pedestal of polished black granite. An adjacent plaque reads: The bust is a unique cast, but another bust of Kennedy by Lipchitz was installed on 11 November 1965 in Military Park, Newark, New Jersey, United States. The"
"injustices of today. It is right and proper that she is honoured in Parliament Square alongside former leaders who changed our country."" The Suffrage Statue Commission selected Gillian Wearing, a former Turner Prize winner, to create the statue with it funded from the Government's Centenary Fund. The statue was part of the 14-18 NOW series of artistic commissions that marked the centenary commemorations of World War I. In addition to the campaign for a statue of Fawcett, a rival campaign existed to install a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Parliament Square, which had begun in 2014. This campaign was backed"
"Statue of Margaret Thatcher (London Guildhall) The statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Guildhall, London, is a marble sculpture of Margaret Thatcher. It was commissioned in 1998 from the sculptor Neil Simmons by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art; paid for by an anonymous donor, it was intended for a plinth among statues of former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons. However as the House did not permit a statue to be erected there during its subject's lifetime, the work had been temporarily housed in Guildhall. It was unveiled"
"John F. Kennedy Memorial, London A memorial bust of John F. Kennedy stands on the Marylebone Road in London, England, to the west of Great Portland Street underground station. A work of the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, it was unveiled on 15 May 1965 by the subject's brother, Robert F. Kennedy. The bronze bust is set on a pedestal of polished black granite. An adjacent plaque reads: The bust is a unique cast, but another bust of Kennedy by Lipchitz was installed on 11 November 1965 in Military Park, Newark, New Jersey, United States. The bust was removed temporarily in August"
"made her look as if she were hanging laundry out to dry. Wearing modified her design to move Fawcett's hands to the corners of the sign, and lowered and flattened the sign itself. The names and images of 55 women and four men who supported women's suffrage appear on the statue's plinth. They are as follows: The feminist campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado Perez began a campaign to install a statue of a woman in Parliament Square on 8 March (International Women's Day) 2016, after noticing while jogging that day that all the existing statues on the square were of"