+Estelle+Sylvia+Pankhurst+collection,+International+Institute+of+Social+Hisotry+(Amsterdam).jpg "Sylvia continues to work while recovering from a hunger strike in 1913 in the home she shared with Mr and Mrs Payne in the East End's Old Ford Road") |
Image Credit - Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst collection, International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) |
From militant suffragette at the
beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa
after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting
oppression and injustice.
Launching a new biography of Pankhurst, the author will
discuss Pankhurst’s role at the forefront of significant developments in the
history of radical politics: her construction of a working-class suffragette
militancy which put working-class women at the heart of the struggle; her
championing of the Bolshevik Revolution; her clandestine attempts to sabotage
the actions of the British state; her early identification of the dangers of
Fascism; and her life-long opposition to racism and imperialism.
Katherine Connelly is a writer,
historian and activist. In 2003 she was one of the school students who
led the school strikes against the Iraq war and has continued to be a
trouble-maker ever since. This year she co-ordinated the Emily Wilding
Davison Memorial Campaign and participated in the Channel 4 documentary on
Emily Davison presented by Clare Balding. She is currently a PhD student
at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is researching the influence of
radical Parisian popular culture in the 1840s on the writings of Karl
Marx. She is a leading member of the revolutionary socialist organisation
Counterfire and this is her first book.
Booking Advised. Visit the PHM website here.
Contact the museum on 0161 838 9190 or info@phm.org.uk
Free. Donations to the museum gratefully received
2.00pm – 2.45pm (talk) 3.00pm (book signing)
Free. Donations to the museum gratefully received
2.00pm – 2.45pm (talk) 3.00pm (book signing)
