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
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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The Backstreet: London’s iconic men-only leather bar
For 37 years, The Backstreet was an iconic part of London’s leather and gay bar scene
Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy
Pageantry and protest at Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee
Marking 25 years as monarch in 1977, the queen’s jubilee was met with celebration and discontent
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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Polling Booth, Companions In Disgrace (picture postcard)
Artists' Suffrage League, Hedley Charlton, C.
1907-1914
