The Latest Breaking News from Helen Pankhurst

Suffragette’s great-granddaughter attacks protest sentences ahead of appeal bids

More than a dozen climate protesters are due to seek to challenge the length of their sentences at a hearing on Wednesday.

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

Suffragette Emmeline Pankurst would be troubled by rise of misogynistic influencers, great granddaughter says

Exclusive: ‘They had the same type of extreme male chauvinist behaviour during their time,’ Professor Helen Pankhurst says

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2024

Number of women parliamentary candidates sinks to 30 per cent

Women make up less than a fifth of Reform candidates as the number of overall candidates falls from the last election

The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2024

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

Climate activists are on the right side of history

Letters: The protesters are heroes, says Dr Graeme McLeay, while Thalia Carr says we shouldn’t be criticising those sounding the alarm on such an enormous crisis

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022