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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Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Barbara Lisicki: A disability rights pioneer
Lisicki led the charge to win civil rights for disabled people in the 1990s
Love, Sex & Relationships
Love, Sex & Relationships
Sunil Gupta’s photo-collages protested Section 28
This 1988 series challenged homophobic government legislation through photography and poetry
Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
Katharine Hamnett shaped the style of the 1980s
Oversized silhouettes, worn-in denim, political slogans – Hamnett’s designs drove a new London look
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Photography
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Votes for Women, Miss Adela Pankhurst (portrait postcard)
National Women's Social and Political Union
C. 1908
