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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

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

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

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