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Sylvia Pankhurst and Cycling for Suffrage

November 23, 2018January 23, 2019 Dominika Kubinyova 2631 Views 5 min read

Since former mayor Boris Johnson boosted the biking boom back in the early 2010s, London’s status as a cycling city

Photograph of Norah Smyth, Bow suffragette, photographer and chauffeur to Sylvia Pankhurst

East End suffragette, photograher and chauffeur to Sylvia and photographer Norah Smyth

November 11, 2018January 29, 2021 Dominika Kubinyova 2696 Views 5 min read

Norah Lyle Smyth was a British suffragette, novelist, photographer and a socialist activist who worked alongside Sylvia Pankhurst on the

A more detailed photograph of the exhibition showing posters from a distance

Four Corners and Camerawork: Radical Visions exhibition and Modern Suffragette photography training

October 10, 2018January 17, 2019 Natasha Forrest 2225 Views 5 min read

Film and photography centre and charity Four Corners has a long history of campaigning and community activism in East London.

Archive image of Bow Suffragettes outside Lord Morpeth Pub

Hidden stories revealed: The lesser-known Suffragettes in Bow

May 29, 2018May 20, 2021 Megan Agnew 3614 Views 9 min read

This week marks 105 years since Suffragette Emily Davison threw herself in front of the King’s horse. Along with Sylvia

Lord Morpeth pub Ford Road Bow with Suffragettes mural on side of building

Mural on Lord Morpeth in Bow commemorates Sylvia Pankhurst

March 13, 2018May 20, 2021 April Kosky 4375 Views 4 min read

A Sylvia Pankhurst mural has been unveiled on the side of the Lord Morpeth pub on Old Ford Road in

Minnie Lansbury with George Lansbury and Edgar Lansbury.

Minnie Lansbury and the Clock on Bow Road

March 6, 2018January 22, 2019 Anastasia Miari 3969 Views 3 min read

You may have noticed the clock on Electric House on Bow Road, but were you aware of the woman it

Founding the East End Women’s Museum

March 6, 2018January 18, 2019 Anastasia Miari 1842 Views 3 min read

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re raising our hands in praise to those behind the East End Women’s Museum,

Annie Besant portraint in black and white. Sitting.

Annie Besant and Bow’s Match Girl Riots

February 22, 2018February 27, 2020 Anastasia Miari 5653 Views 6 min read

Born in 1847 and rising to fame as a political activist in the mid-late 1800s, Annie Besant was a key

A formal portrait photograph of Sylvia Pankhurst.

Bow: the heartland of Sylvia Pankhurst’s life and work in East London

October 11, 2016September 16, 2021 Amy Freeborn 7670 Views 12 min read

Few people realise that Bow is the heartland of Sylvia Pankhurst and the East London Federation of Suffragettes. Within 100 metres

Norman Grove Street Party celebrates Suffragettes

September 22, 2014January 13, 2022 Tabitha Stapely 2128 Views 3 min read

Norman Grove’s annual street party celebrated its links with Sylvia Pankhurst’s Suffragettes with a Suffragette-themed day of festivities. Norman Grove,

Young Suffragette with We Will Vote placard

East London Suffragettes centenary festival

August 2, 2014May 10, 2022 Amy Freeborn 1460 Views 3 min read

‘Sylvia Pankhurst was a really incredible woman, and I wanted to see her story told,’ says Sarah Jackson, so she

Gary Arber upstairs in his stationery shop on Roman Road in 2014.

In conversation with Gary Arber of Arber & Co, the Suffragettes’ Printers

June 30, 2014January 14, 2022 Tabitha Stapely 1933 Views 0 min read

The oldest printers in the East End, Arbers & Co on Roman Road, printed for the East London Suffragettes over