FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Sylvia pankhurst - The Untold Story

Honouring Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst on stage and in political action

Letter: As we approach the centenary of equal franchise in 2028, it is important to build on the rights that were won by the suffragettes, writes Helen Pankhurst

The Guardian - UK · 11h ago

Shirley Harrison obituary

Other lives: Author of a controversial book on Jack the Ripper and a biography of Sylvia Pankhurst

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18

‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2025

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

The week in theatre: Phaedra; Sylvia; Standing at the Sky’s Edge – review

Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield finds a home from home

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

Sylvia at the Old Vic review - Beverley Knight is magnificent in mixed suffragette musical

The sheer charisma and vocal power of the leads transcend the more stilted aspects of this hip-hop show about the Pankhursts

Evening Standard · 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

The best London theatre shows to book in 2023 from Groundhog Day to Cheryl in 2:22

The pick of productions coming to London this year

Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2023