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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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
Barbara Lisicki: A disability rights pioneer
Lisicki led the charge to win civil rights for disabled people in the 1990s
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Executions & death-penalty reforms in Britain
How 18th-century British reformers questioned capital punishment and the fight continues today
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
The Case of Mrs Pankhurst. A Victim of the Cat and Mouse Act (notice)
Women's Social and Political Union
1913
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
To Buckingham Palace, May 21, 1914 (flyer)
Women's Social and Political Union
1914-05-21