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Road to Equality
Celebrating the stories behind women's rights in the UK
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and 15 more collections
“What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.”
– Millicent Fawcett
EDITORIAL FEATURE
"Feminism is not a one size fits all movement"
Writer Scarlett Curtis on her aim to make feminism universally accesible
Inspiring individuals
From 18th Century activists to modern day trailblazers
THE ACTIVIST
Amika George
Met the #FreePeriods campaigner
UNSUNG HEROES
59 Men and Women
Celebrating unsung heroes with a collection of portraits by illustrator Charlotte Trounce
THE ICON
MILLICENT FAWCETT
Suffragist leader and pioneer
THE SACRIFICE
Emily Wilding Davison
The suffragette who gave up her life for the cause
ALLIES
Suffrage men
The men who helped campaign for womens' rights
Celebrating Millicent Fawcett's legacy
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Signs of Change
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Artist Gillian Wearing brings the stories behind the movement to Parliament Square
Then and Now
From 1918 to 2018
EDITORIAL FEATURE
The Pankhurst Effect
Helen Pankhurst reflects on the actions and long term influence of the WSPU
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Women in Parliament
Looking back at a century of female politicians
Public art for change
The Mayor of London and Tate Collective's LDN WMN outdoor art exhibition
Online Exhibit
West LDN WMN
A suffragette, a journalist and a nurse remembered on the streets of west London
Online Exhibit
Central LDN WMN
From a pianist to a designer, discover the inspiring forgotten women of central London
Online Exhibit
North LDN WMN
Remembering north London women, from suffrage campaigners to cultural icons, and a British Muslim war hero
Online Exhibit
East LDN WMN
Celebrate women's right campaigners, artists and community champions from east London
Online Exhibit
South LDN WMN
Discover unsung pioneers of south London, from a disabled suffragette to a black feminist hero
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Noor Inayat Khan by Manjit Thapp
Kings Cross Station
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East London Women by Joey Yu
Shoreditch
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Olive Morris by Rene Matić
Brixton
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Mary Seacole by Heather Agyepong
Lisson Grove
Explore the art of protest and activism
Mary Lowndes' banners to the feminist zines
PROCESSIONS
Processions: Women's marches 100 years on
Artichoke Trust's visual spectacle of women's activism in the UK
PUBLISHING
100 years of feminist publishing
Gillian Murphy
BRANDING
From Branding to Backlash
Dr Naomi Paxton explores the pioneering marketing tools of the suffrage movement
EMBROIDERY
The Hollowayettes
The women whose embroidered signatures make up the spectacular Holloway Prisoners' banner
ONLINE EXHIBIT
The sisterhood and posters
How the poster format has and continues to be important to women
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Suffragette branding
Using events and branded merchandise to raise funds for campaigning
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Art & women's suffrage
Explore the banners, postcards, posters and cartoons of the suffrage movement's artists
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Suffragette spectacles
How the suffragettes used theatrical demonstrations to get their message across
Spotlight on: Mary Lowndes
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Everything You Need To Know About Mary Lowndes
Find out how the artist went from designing stained glass to making banners
ONLINE EXHIBIT
The Banners of Mary Lowndes
From her sketches to intricate velvet masterpieces
Artful protest in action
Explore banners, posters and videos of protests through the years
Online Exhibit
8 Women's Protests From Around The World
A look at women's protests through the decades
This Is The "The House" That Man Built Anti-Suffrage Postcard
‘BB London’: Birn Brothers Ltd
YBA Wife poster
See Red Women’s Workshop
NUWSS notebook cover
Justice For Loyal Citizens suffrage banner
International Women’s Day March
WSPU Holloway Prisoners banner
Macbeth, Ann
Millicent Garrett Fawcett and others in Colonel Blathwayt's garden
Suffragette mustard tin bomb
Kevin Moran
Women are Powerful and Dangerous
Suffragette milk tin bomb
Kevin Moran
Vera Wentworth
Halftones Limited
Explore the colours of the movement
Beyond the signature green and purple
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Photography and the Suffragettes
From surveilance to documentation
DOCUMENTATION
Christina Broom: The Suffragette Photographer
The pioneering photographer who documented the suffrage campaign
SURVEILLANCE
Suffragettes Under Surveillance
How the state used undercover photography to track the most hardcore of militant suffragettes
Feminism, power and politics
The history of the women's movement
EARLY SUFFRAGE
The 1866 petition
A pivotal moment in the early suffrage campaign
The 1900s
The Women's Social & Political Union
The militant branch of the Votes for Women campaign
WOMEN'S LIB
The women's liberation movement
Explore the campaigns of second wave feminism
MODERN FEMINISM
Feminism in 2018
Mayor of London
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Pioneering women
Beyond the Pankhursts, leading female figures
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Shades of militancy
How the Suffragette campaign inspired women of all backgrounds to rebellion
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Women on hunger strike
The suffragette hunger strikes and the notorious Cat & Mouse Act
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Second Wave Sisterhood
Sisterhood, socialising, and solidarity during the Women's Liberation Movement
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Women's Pilgrimage
Explore the forgotten suffrage pilgrimage of 1913
ONLINE EXHIBIT
The seat of power
The Londoners who campaigned across the capital for women's suffrage
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Sadiq Khan On Driving Gender Equality Across London
The Mayor of London talks about his #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign
Women's March through London
Palace Pandemonium (1914) - Emmeline Pankhurst | BFI National Archive
The Derby
Miss Davison's Funeral
Will There Be Women MPs?
London. Suffragette Riots at Westminster (1910) | BFI National Archive
Mass Meeting of Suffragettes (1910) | BFI National Archive
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Keeping Alive The Suffragette Spirit
Museum of London curator Beverley Cook on the importance of their archive
Celebrating intersectionality
Exploring how class, race, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender, are interwoven in the fight for equality
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Intersectional Suffrage
Famida Rahman on the women who didn't win in 1918
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Working class heroes
Not just for the wealthy, women giving their lives to the cause
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Places and queer women in England
How LGBTQ histories are embedded in the buildings and landscapes all around us
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Rosa May Billinghurst
Rosa's amazing life and contributions to the movement
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Vera "Jack" Holme
The life of a cross-dressing actress, suffragette, and chauffeur
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Women & LGBTQ History in the UK
From the Glasgow Women's Library LGBTQ archive
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Sexual revolutionaries of the Suffragette movement
The campaigners re-imaginging womens' roles and rights
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Have Women of Color Been Written Out of The Women's Movement?
Writer Yomi Adegoke looks back at black women’s history of activism in Britain
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
– Audre Lorde
From their perspective
Explore the original scrapbooks from the suffrage campaigners themselves
Flora Murray
Ada Flatman Vol.1
Ada Flatman
Kitty Marion
Marion, Kitty
Marion Holmes
Holmes, Marion
Millicent Fawcett
Elsie Duval
Elsie Duval
Minnie Baldock
Minnie Baldock
Ada Flatman Vol.2
Ada Flatman
Ada Flatman Vol.3
Ada Flatman
Important locations to the movement
From Epsom to Jarrow
EDITORIAL FEATURE
Landmark Locations of the Women's Movement
Take a tour of the places that became part of women’s history
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Hotspots of activity around the UK
Countrywide action
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Blue Plaques across London
The places of importance to pioneering political women of London
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Parks and gardens created by women
Bringing new meanting to a woman's place
"There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer."
– Rihanna
ONLINE EXHIBIT
21st century feminist activism
The noughties feminist revival
Modern feminist artists
EDITORIAL FEATURE
The Feminist Artists Whose Work You Need To Know
Discover the trailblazing women who made waves in the art world
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Live Art and Feminism in the UK
How do women and feminists use their bodies to make art, and why?
ONLINE EXHIBIT
A new icon for all
The making of Parliament Square's newest inhabitant
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Second wave feminist filmmakers
The defining films from the Second Wave feminist filmmakers
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Nevertheless She Persisted
Meet some of the women from around the world that everyone should know about
ONLINE EXHIBIT
Women & The Art of Change
Celebrating women and their influence on the arts
Are you a teacher or parent?
Downloadable lesson plans that can be used by teachers in class or by students to work through at their own pace
Trailblazing Black Women
Women Campaigning for Equality and Change
Meet Some of the Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Unheard Stories from Women in India
Inspirational Women in Music
Female Pioneers in Science
Influential Women Artists
Influential Women from the World of Design
Discover more about women's fight for equality in the UK
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