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
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, artist, activist
This famous votes-for-women campaigner set herself apart as an artist and social activist
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Ottobah Cugoano: A powerful critic of slavery
Cugoano shared his own experience of enslavement to try and end it for good
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