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

Nothing’s managed to stop diverse Dalston’s beating heart

When the ultimate fashion accessory was a silicone statement bracelet bought for £1

How this anti-alcohol campaign shaped Victorian London and its drinking habits

A demonstration of desperate working-class Londoners met with police brutality

Visual identity, fashion and politics mix for the first time

The start of mass organised direct action in the fight for women’s right to vote

The police used covert photography to identify Suffragette militants