Emmeline Pankhurst immortalised by Madame Tussauds for International Women’s Day A number of modern-day activists, including Florence Given, joined Madame Tussauds to discuss Suffragette and her work. The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2023
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad review – off-key hymn to pioneers This gushing celebration of composers who triumphed against the odds never quite communicates their place in history and leaves a hole at the centre where the music should be The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2023
Helen Pankhurst: I think it’s sad the way that Meghan has been treated The gender equality activist has launched a podcast ahead of International Women’s Day. The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023
Helen Pankhurst: How Meghan has been treated is sad The activist is launching a new podcast with singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor for International Women’s Day. The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023
From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks. ABC News · Feb 28, 2023
Beverley Knight calls Suella Braverman a ‘risible character’ after ‘disgusting’ Windrush reform reversal Singer and actor expressed her disgust at recent governemental decisions about Windrush reform The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2023
Beverley Knight: ‘Prince encouraged me to be bold’ The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023
Sylvia review – storming show sets suffragettes to soul, funk and hip-hop Historical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023
Activists gather to support 'Barclays 7' women who broke windows at bank’s headquarters Climate activists want to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and their tactics were inspired by the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912 Daily Mirror · Feb 2, 2023
More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy among those saying they ‘stand with’ protesters The Guardian - UK · Jan 6, 2023
From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the ‘cripple suffragette’ – 10 heroes of the disabled rights movement Brad Lomax in the US, Rosa May Billinghurst in the UK, Javed Abid in India … these are the men and women I wish I had known about as a disabled child The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2022
The new Manchester hotel in an "amazing location" with rooms from £75 a night "It was a joy to peek out of the window" Manchester Evening News · Nov 27, 2022
Mum's anguish as baby twin died in womb and sibling was born with no heartbeat Helen Hudson hopes to raise awareness for World Prematurity Day after losing on of her twins due to complications Manchester Evening News · Nov 18, 2022
World Prematurity Day: Family of baby born without heartbeat celebrates first birthday Helen Hudson gave birth to twins Beatrice and Emmeline in 2021 Wales Online · Nov 17, 2022
The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022 Mother’s agony as baby dies from rare ‘twin to twin transfusion’ syndrome Helen Hudson, 40, gave birth to twins Beatrice and Emmeline in 2021, only the latter of whom survived
The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022 My suffragette grandmothers are now seen as heroes. Today’s climate protesters will be too Whether or not you agree with their tactics, activists blocking roads and stopping traffic are on the right side of history, says Care International adviser Dr Helen Pankhurst
WEKU · Oct 26, 2022 Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022 First Thing: Rishi Sunak becomes UK’s PM after meeting the king Ex-chancellor is third Tory prime minister in less than two months and fifth in six years. Plus, the history of radical art protest by women
The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2022 Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women ‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus
Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2022 Eco-warriors attack Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with Heinz soup – here are the other famous acts of art vandalism What is it about art that activists (love to) hate so much?
The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2022 Let’s sing the praises of Sylvia Pankhurst – and honour her with a statue Letter: Philippa Clark on the musical about the socialist campaigner and the campaign for a statue of her
The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022 Beverley Knight: Suffragettes’ struggle still relevant today The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic
The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022 Beverley Knight to star as suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in musical The musical returns for a limited run from January 27 to April 1 2023.
Edinburgh Live · Aug 18, 2022 We saw the Edinburgh Fringe show championing brilliant women and it packed a punch The cast put on a phenomenal performance packed full of energy and passion that was maintained all the way throughout the powerful and captivating show
The National (Scotland) · Aug 7, 2022 Fantastically great women take to the stage at the Fringe WHEN Kate Pankhurst discovered that celebrated suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was a distant cousin, she had recently graduated from an illustration…