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
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The 1918 election: When women first voted
The first general election after the First World War saw huge changes in who could vote
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Olaudah Equiano: Writer & abolitionist
A freed enslaved man whose life story drove the abolition of the British trade in enslaved Africans
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