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‘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

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

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

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How Tate Britain overhauled 500 years of art history with its first rehang in a decade

The most comprehensive collection of British art in the world is having a reshuffle. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson tells Eloise Hendy about how the gallery’s ‘interventions’ will expand and diversify the canon

The Independent UK

Hundreds of cultural treasures seized from Ethiopia found in London

Plundered gems located in capital as debate goes on over their return

Evening Standard

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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Guardian - UK

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 National (Scotland)

Award-winning playwright celebrates Scottish feminist in new musical

SCOTTISH feminist hero Caroline Phillips is being celebrated in a new musical created by award-winning writer Alan Bissett.

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