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Sylvia Pankhurst
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist, socialist, activist, artist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and…
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culture · English activist, writer and artist (1882–1960) · journalist · women's rights activist · editor · oil painter · artist · writer · feminist · also Sylvia Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, (Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst, Pankhurst
Born 5 May 1882 · Died 27 September 1960 · Q298213
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2025· 2 entries
Irish Examiner: Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragettes' support for the Irish cause
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2023· 1 entry
Artnet: A New Musical Celebrates the Life of Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, Daughter of Emmeline, Socialist—and Artist
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2018· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Tate Acquires Sylvia Pankhurst's Watercolors, and North Carolina Museum of Art Acquires William Wetmore Sculpture
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2009· 1 entry
Libcom: Open letter to Lenin - Sylvia Pankhurst
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2004· 1 entry
The release of previously classified government files revealed that throughout the 1930s and 1940s MI5 had monitored Ms Pankhurst's movements and intercepted her letters and telephone calls
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1974· 1 entry
By Workers Voice, a Liverpudlian Communist group
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1960· 2 entries
Died 1960-09-27.
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Aged 78, and received a full state funeral at which Haile Selassie named her "an honorary Ethiopian"
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1956· 2 entries
Encouraged by Haile Selassie to aid with women's development, Pankhurst and her son Richard moved into an imperial guest house in the Ethiopian capital to Addis Ababa (Corio had died in 1954)
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The Governor of Jamaica, Sir Hugh Foot, was informed that Pankhurst's paper was radicalising a "sect" who called themselves the "Rastafari"
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1947· 1 entry
A Foreign Office official commented that "we agree with you
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1944· 1 entry
After it had been liberated by Allied forces from Italian occupation, and criticised what she perceived as British ambitions to take over the region
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1940· 1 entry
Wrote to Viscount Swinton, then chairing a committee investigating Fifth Columnists, and enclosed lists of active Fascists still at large and of anti-Fascists who had been interned
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1935· 3 entries
The Committee pooled resources with the League against Imperialism and the West-African Union des Travailleurs Nègres (Union of Black Workers) to promote freedom of speech and to protest repression throughout the Europea
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Was devoted to the cause of Ethiopia where, after the Second World War, she spent her remaining years as a guest of the restored emperor Haile Selassie
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Pankhurst commissioned the Anti–Air War Memorial in Woodford Green, London as "a protest against war in the air"
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1934· 1 entry
The French feminist Gabrielle Duchêne organised the World Assembly of Women, and chaired its World Committee of Women against War and Fascism (CMF; Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme)
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1927· 1 entry
At the age of 45, she gave birth to a son, Richard
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1926· 1 entry
Pankhurst claimed that the social and family structures in ancient India resembled the essential features of communism: equality, fraternity and mutuality
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1920· 1 entry
Became a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia
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1916· 1 entry
“Justice can make but one reply to the Irish rebellion and that is the demand that Ireland should be allowed to govern itself”
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1915· 1 entry
Pankhurst supported the International Women's Peace Congress, held at The Hague
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1914· 2 entries
Pankhurst formed the Workers' Suffrage Federation
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To enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
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1912· 1 entry
Pankhurst led a march on Mountjoy Prison in Dublin in solidarity with two English WPSU militants who had violently sought to disrupt the Prime Minister H
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1911· 1 entry
Published a propagandist history of the WSPU's campaign, The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement
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1909· 1 entry
With "the uprising of the 20,000" mostly immigrant, Jewish women workers in the sweatshops of New York, had spread to the city's clothing workers
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1907· 1 entry
Toured industrial towns in England and Scotland, painting portraits of working-class women in their working environments
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1906· 3 entries
Studied at Royal College of Art (1904–1906).
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And had also spoken on behalf of the Dublin workers at the Albert Hall
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Sylvia Pankhurst started to work full-time for WSPU, with Christabel and their mother
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1904· 1 entry
Pankhurst won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, but she was incensed to learn that of 16 scholarships awarded by the college each year, 13 were reserved for men, and that, in response to a parlia
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1903· 2 entries
Pankhurst went on to train as an artist at the Manchester School of Art
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Studied at Manchester School of Art (1898–1903).
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1894· 1 entry
“Sui fondamenti della geometria”
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1893· 1 entry
Pankhurst's parents joined the Scottish miner Keir Hardie, a family friend, as founding members of the Independent Labour Party (ILP)
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-05-05.
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1872· 1 entry
Of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, and played a role in drafting legislation that gave unmarried women householders a vote in local elections, and married women control over their property and earnings
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