Plaques
During his final years in Parliament, Benn placed three plaques within the Houses of Parliament. Two are in the 'Suffragettes room' (next to the Central Lobby). The first was placed in 1995 and reads as follows:
"This plaque is dedicated/ with respect, gratitude and affection/ to the many hundreds of thousands of men and women/ who lived and worked on these islands/ and who devoted themselves to the advancement of/ freedom, civil liberties, social justice and democracy/ who campaigned for popular representation in Parliament
Including: Wat Tyler, John Ball, William Tyndale, Thomas More, the Levellers, John Lilburne, William Walwyn, The Diggers, Gerard Winstanley, Tom Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Robert Owen, The Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Chartists, Keir Hardie, Annie Besant, Charles Bradlaugh, Robert Tressell, the Suffragettes and Constance Markievicz
And many others whose names have never/ been recorded in our history"
The second was placed in 1996 and is dedicated to all who work within the Houses of Parliament.
The third is dedicated to Suffragette Emily Wilding-Davison and was placed in the broom cupboard next to the Undercroft Chapel within the Palace of Westminster, where Davison is said to have hidden during the 1911 census in order to establish her address as the House of Commons.
He unveiled a plaque in Highbury, North London, to commemorate the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
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