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 New Cross fire
13 young Black people died in this 1981 tragedy, which led to the Brixton Uprising
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
Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
Katharine Hamnett shaped the style of the 1980s
Oversized silhouettes, worn-in denim, political slogans – Hamnett’s designs drove a new London look
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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
The Curds and Whey Seller, Cheapside (oil on canvas)
British School
C. 1730
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Britannia - women's suffrage reform, no taxation without representation (poster)
Suffrage Atelier
1911-1912
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Suffragettes Prepare to Chain Themselves to Railings (photographic print)
Illustrations Bureau
1909