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A more comprehensive list can be found on the ANC website
1964: Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London
1965: Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University of Leeds, Britain
1973: A nuclear particle discovered at the University of Leeds named the Mandela particle
1975: Honorary life membership of the Students' Union of the University of London
1981: Freedom of the City of Glasgow, 4 August. The scroll was accepted on behalf of Mandela by the Vice-President of Nigeria  Road named after Mandela by the London Borough of Brent
1982: Elected Honorary Life President of the Students' Union at the London School of Economics and Political Science
1983: City Council of Harlow, United Kingdom, renamed one of its major roads in honour of Nelson Mandela,
18 July AUEW (TASS), on of Britain's major trade unions, held a special ceremony to rename their executive committee room the 'Nelson Mandela Room',
18 July Freedom of London Borough of Greenwich,
20 July City Council of Leeds, Britain, names the Civic Hall 'Nelson Mandela Gardens', Seventy-eight members of British parliament call for Nelson Mandela's release Park in Hull, Britain, named 'Mandela Park' Labour Party of Britain invites Nelson Mandela as a guest of its Annual Conference Honorary LL.D, University of Lancaster, Britain City of Cardiff, Wales, named a street after Nelson Mandela The students of Warwick University, Coventry and South Bank Polytechnic Students Union named rooms in honour of Nelson Mandela
1984: Camden Borough Council, London, names the street where the Anti-Apartheid Movement has its headquarters as 'Mandela Street'. The British pop group Special AKA releases a record called 'Free Nelson Mandela' which becomes a hit Hackney Council, London, renames a housing block after Nelson Mandela, April Honorary membership of National and Local Government Officers Association [NALGO] Britain Haringey Borough Council, London, names housing development after Nelson Mandela Bishop Trevor Huddleston presents 50,000 signatures on international petition to Javier Perez de Cuellar, UN Secretary General. calling for the release of Mandela and all South African political prisoners Elected Honorary Member of the Students Association, University of Strathclyde. Scotland Freedom of the City of Aberdeen conferred on both Nelson and Winnie Mandela,
1985: Revenue Staff Federation, Britain, names its Commonwealth trade union scholarship after Nelson Mandela London Borough of Southwark names new road 'Mandela Way' Nottingham City Council names a room in a sports centre Mayors representing more than fifty British towns and cities march through London in full ceremonial dress to ask the Prime Minister to take further steps to secure Nelson Mandela's release The 1985 Third World Prize, awarded annually by the London-based Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies, awarded jointly to Nelson and Winnie Mandela Awarded freedom of the City of Hull, UK. City of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, UK, renames its speakers' corner Nelson Mandela Corner, September Statue of Nelson Mandela erected in London by Greater London Council, unveiled by Oliver Tambo on 28 October
1986: Coventry City Council named new building after Mandela Freedom of the Borough of Islwyn, Wales, given to Winnie and Nelson Mandela Park in Leicester, England, named after Mandela Honorary membership awarded to Winnie and Nelson Mandela by the National Union of Seamen, Britain Street in Glasgow, Scotland, where South African Consulate is sited, renamed after Mandela
1988: Nelson and Winnie Mandela given honorary membership of the National Union of Teachers, Great Britain Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June. Attended by audience of 72,000 and seen on television by close to a billion people in over 60 countries
1995: Human Rights Institute, with President Mandela as honorary chairman, launched in London by the International Bar Association, December 1995
1996: Received the Freedom of the City of London, London, 10 July Received Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, de Montfort, Glasgow, Caledonian, London, Nottingham, Oxford and Warwick, Buckingham Palace, London, 10 July
1997: Received Freedom of Oxford, UK, 11 July Received Freedom of City of Edinburgh, Scotland, 27 October
1998: Awarded the Freedom of the City and County of Cardiff, Cardiff, 16 June
2000: Awarded the Queen's Council by the House of Lords, United Kingdom, 3 May BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Award, London, 29 June Received World Methodist Peace Award, London, 29 June
2001: Made an Honorary Freeman of Leeds, 30 April Made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2 May
2004: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Britain's Open University, Cape Town 4 February
Did your communbity bestow any honours or titles upon Nelson Mandela? Let ACTSA know the details and we'll add it to our list.
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