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.
Blogs-And-Stories
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
Health & Disease

Health & Disease
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: A pioneering doctor
The first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor
Rights & Activism

Rights & Activism
The People’s Vote marches against Brexit
After the UK voted to exit the European Union in 2016, hundreds of thousands called for a second referendum
Rights & Activism

Rights & Activism
Stop the War 2003: London’s largest ever protest
In 2003, more than a million people marched through the capital to protest against the UK’s war in Iraq