Photography Exhibition Arts | Friday 02nd Nov 2018 Photography Exhibition Early feminism in the frame
Friday 14th Sep 2018 Frosty's Ramblings Suffragette centenary: still silenced a hundred years after votes for women won PETER FROST is off to a rarely heard opera to celebrate the centenary of some women getting the vote.
Monday 03rd Sep 2018 Campaign of the Week Telling ‘her story’ in Middlesbrough EMMA CHESWORTH writes on the underrepresentation of women in public works of art and the campaign to see Ellen Wilkinson set in stone
Tuesday 26th Jun 2018 Putting working-class women centre stage Ahead of this weekend’s Matchwomen’s Festival, LOUISE RAW pays tribute to the struggles of the suffragettes whose stories often get overlooked
Thursday 26th Apr 2018 Warm words in front of a long overdue statue are not enough With Theresa May and Sadiq Khan unveiling a new statue of Millicent Fawcett earlier this week, KAREN INGALA SMITH argues that both the Tories and Labour still need to up their game when it comes to women’s rights
Thursday 08th Mar 2018 The march of the women – militancy beyond the myths It’s widely believed that the suffragette campaign was violent – the truth is that the only untrammelled violence seen during the campaign came from the state, says LOUISE RAW
Thursday 08th Mar 2018 The legacy of the suffragettes lies with today’s working-class women There is a massive gap between well-off women who seeks to promote their books, their businesses and brands as ‘feminists’ and the real inheritors of suffragism and radical politics, says BERNADETTE HYLAND
Wednesday 21st Feb 2018 History How the vote for all women was won MARY DAVIS explains the historic significance of Sylvia Pankhurst and the East London Federation of Suffragettes
Wednesday 14th Feb 2018 HISTORY Time to end the ‘straight-washing’ of Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper GERRY DOWNING remembers two lesbian Suffragette heroes
Wednesday 07th Feb 2018 History Rebel countess and the women’s struggle The Star adapts a classic article by C DESMOND GREAVES in Labour Monthly on the life of Constance Markiewicz 150 years after her birth
Tuesday 06th Feb 2018 History Emmeline Pankhurst is far from the only suffragette we should remember DAVID ROSENBERG writes on Teresa Billington, the Women’s Freedom League and the other suffragettes who fought for equality within their own movement and struggle