Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

• The revolutionary life of Sylvia Pankhurst - Counterfire Media Podcast

  

  Tom Lock Griffiths talks to biographer and activist Kate Connelly about Sylvia Pankhurst and why the militant socialist and suffragette is still powerfully relevant today in this episode of Counterfire Media's Podcast

• Sylvia - theatre review

  

  A sold-out annex theatre was treated to Jacqueline Mulhallen’s moving, informative and funny performance, Sylvia, the radical Suffragette leader

• Sylvia Pankhurst and the working class suffragettes

  

  Jacqueline Mulhallen reflects on the radicals who helped reshape global democracy

• Statue commemorating working class Suffragette Alice Hawkins unveiled

  

  Marking a hundred years of some women winning the right to vote, a statue of Suffragette Alice Hawkins was erected in Leicester. Jacqueline Mulhallen reports

• Sylvia: a play about Sylvia Pankhurst

  

  An updated version of Jacqueline Mulhallen’s one-woman play is currently on tour

• Suffragette: on the side of the rebels

  

  Suffragette is a compelling and moving portrayal of the courage of ordinary women who dared to challenge the power of the British state

• Sylvia Pankhurst's Christmas parties for peace

  

  Katherine Connelly tells of how the radical Suffragette gave East End kids a glimmer of hope in the depths of World War I

• Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

  

  The importance and coherence of Sylvia Pankhurst’s lifelong activism is revealed by Katherine Connelly’s grasp of her political commitments, making this book an important new account her life

• Sylvia Pankhurst: Militancy and Mass Mobilisation

  

  Pankhurst’s commitment to working class politics offered a more fruitful strategy for the women’s suffrage movement, compared to the middle class strategy of the leaders of the WSPU

• Art and Conflict: Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

  

  As a young artist at the turn of the 20^th century, Sylvia Pankhurst battled discrimination in the institutional art world, while also developing strong political commitments

• Exhibition: Sylvia Pankhurst

  

  An exhibition of Sylvia Pankhurst’s painting is a timely opportunity to discover the committed art of a figure more famous for her political campaigning, finds Jacqueline Mulhallen

• Sylvia Pankhurst: War and Imperialism

  

  Sylvia Pankhurst’s activism during the First World War demonstrated her unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism - a thread running through all her activity for the rest of her life

• Introduction to Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

  

  In this extract from her book, Katherine Connelly explains the context and continuities of Sylvia’s many political engagements - too often ignored in standard accounts of her life

• Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

  

  The importance and coherence of Sylvia Pankhurst’s lifelong activism is revealed by Katherine Connelly’s grasp of her political commitments, making this book an important new account her life

• Sylvia Pankhurst - Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire - A new book by Katherine Connelly

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• The Suffragettes, Black Friday and two types of window smashing

  

  'The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics', declared suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst