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
How Black Friday changed the Suffragette struggle
A day of aggression in the battle for women’s right to vote
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
The Grunwick strike, 1976–1978
One of the defining industrial disputes of the 1970s happened in a north-west London suburb
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
Women need the vote. Political power. Only those who elect parliament have power to make it serve them (poster)
Suffrage Atelier
1909-1913
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
July 8th 2005 drawings made from memory of the events of July 7th 2005 (ink drawing)
Hewitt, John
2005-07-08