Politics & Society
Meet the mayors, prime ministers and Parliaments who’ve held power, and see how Londoners have lived together, with the help of our objects, stories and blogs.
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Crime & Legislation
Crime & Legislation
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
Politics & Society
Politics & Society
Ken Livingstone: GLC leader & London’s first mayor
Dubbed “Red Ken” in the 1980s, Livingstone became London’s first directly elected mayor in 2000
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, artist, activist
This famous votes-for-women campaigner set herself apart as an artist and social activist
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Photography
Photography
A woman sitting by an electric heater looks at a portrait painting at a house on Ellingfort Road, Hackney (cibachrome print)
Hunter, Tom, Hunter, Tom
1994
