Sir Laurence Olivier is set to join London’s most exclusive open-air club, as English Heritage announces nine new blue plaques celebrating figures who helped shape the capital’s cultural, political and intellectual life. The new plaques will mark buildings across the city where the honourees once lived or worked, quietly weaving their stories back into London’s streets. Also joining Olivier are pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and filmmaker Jill Craigie, whose socially driven films Out of Chaos and Blue Scar tackled politics and inequality head-on. Campaigning against racism and inequality is a thread that runs through several of the new plaques. Public nominations drive the process, meaning the next name on a blue circle could come from anyone.