Rights & Activism

Cugoano shared his own experience of enslavement to try and end it for good

The first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor

After the UK voted to exit the European Union in 2016, hundreds of thousands called for a second referendum

In 2003, more than a million people marched through the capital to protest against the UK’s war in Iraq

The man who lived on Parliament Square for almost a decade

This 1988 series challenged homophobic government legislation through photography and poetry

Huge crowds gathered in London from the 1950s onwards to call for a ban on nuclear weapons

Marching for world peace and workers’ rights on a historic day of activism