Rights & Activism
Explore objects, stories and blogs linked to London’s history as a place of protest, and its many communities’ struggles for their rights.
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Barbara Lisicki: A disability rights pioneer
Lisicki led the charge to win civil rights for disabled people in the 1990s
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Slavery legacies: Removing public statues in London
The removal of Robert Milligan’s statue in 2020 was part of a wider movement around the legacy of slavery
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Olaudah Equiano: Writer & abolitionist
A freed enslaved man whose life story drove the abolition of the British trade in enslaved Africans
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
The March of the Women (music score)
Smith, Ethel, Women's Social and Political Union
1911
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Women need the vote. Political power. Only those who elect parliament have power to make it serve them (poster)
Suffrage Atelier
1909-1913
