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
Ottobah Cugoano: A powerful critic of slavery
Cugoano shared his own experience of enslavement to try and end it for good
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
How the Peasants’ Revolt rocked medieval London
In the summer of 1381, a popular rebellion led by Wat Tyler threatened to topple the ruling elite
Immigration & Identity
Immigration & Identity
Ignatius Sancho: Writer & early Black voter
After gaining his freedom, this 18th-century writer became one of the first Black voters in Britain
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Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
White slave traffic the only solution, woman Suffrage (poster)
Suffrage Atelier
1912
Printed Ephemera
Printed Ephemera
Suffragette meeting on Wimbledon Common (photographic postcard)
R.H. Frost and Co.
1912
