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
The 1918 election: When women first voted
The first general election after the First World War saw huge changes in who could vote
Love, Sex & Relationships
Love, Sex & Relationships
Sunil Gupta’s photo-collages protested Section 28
This 1988 series challenged homophobic government legislation through photography and poetry
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March of the women: Photographing the Suffragettes
The fight for women’s right to vote as captured by pioneering photographer Christina Broom
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Printed Ephemera
Miss Vera Holme, W.S.P.U. Chauffeur (photographic postcard)
Women's Social and Political Union
1912
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Judy throws a plank to the unionist party. 182 City and Town Councils have petitioned government (poster)
Suffrage Atelier
1910
