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Byline: By, Daniel Hall A series of famous faces and events from Morpeth's past are being celebrated with new information boards placed around the town. Five boards have been placed [...]

Byline: By, Taite Johnson A new statue has been unveiled in Wales, honouring an influential and inspiring Welsh woman. The 8ft figure of suffragette Lady Rhondda was unveiled in Newport [...]

Byline: Joe Pinkstone Science correSpondent AN OXFORD scientist and two other members of XR Scientists, a subset of Extinction Rebellion, have compared their campaigning to the actions of Mahatma Gandhi, [...]

Byline: Hannah Furness, Royal Editor Two of the earliest royal photographers in British history are to be commemorated with blue plaques honouring their work as trailblazers. John Thomson, who was [...]

Byline: Ella Whelan What does a black woman suffering under segregation and an Oxford professor wielding papier-mâché have in common? Drawing a blank? According to three of the 'Scientists for [...]

Byline: Laura Cumming Star Rating: 3 stars Mary Delany (1700-88) was a witty memoirist of 72 when she in effect invented the paper collage in Britain. Noticing the affinity between [...]

Byline: David Barnett After 362 years of frankly horrendous treatment at the hands of her husband, Mr Punch, Judy has had enough. For the first time, the female half of [...]

Under a headline that rightly says 'we need bread but also roses', your editorial ( 23 February ) draws attention to the 1911 poem Bread and Roses, implying that this [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The following information was released by the Judicial Council of California / Administrative Office of the Courts: Paying tribute to four women who made history in [...]

Byline: Catherine Bennett When you receive a gift like London's newly named Suffragette line, perhaps it's ungrateful to cavil. For as long as trains run between Gospel Oak and Barking [...]

The London Overground has revealed six new names and colours for its branches as part of a rebrand, with names inspired by London's history and culture. The overhaul will require [...]

Byline: Jonn Elledge One of the things that makes London's transport network so special -- along with the world's oldest underground railway, and the invention of the non-geographic metro map [...]

GLYNIS JOHNS, the actress, who has died aged 100, rose to fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s in a series of film comedies; she became best known for [...]

Byline: By, Hannah Roberts & Kirstie McCrum The actor best known for her role in as Mrs Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, has died. Glynis Johns was aged [...]

Byline: Helen O'Hara The campaign for women's votes may be one of the most significant events in modern history, yet few popular films have tackled it. There were films about [...]

Byline: Catherine Bennett Who doesn't love the suffragettes? A group of women who are heroic, right, and, perhaps most advantageously for their collective reputation, no longer with us. Even the [...]

Byline: Max Stephens, Craig Simpson and Genevieve Holl-Allen JUST Stop Oil protesters appropriated the message of the suffragette movement to justify damaging a 17th-century painting in the National Gallery. Hanan [...]

The article focuses on civil rights activist Hazel N. Dukes, highlighting her lifelong dedication to civil rights and her pivotal role in organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Topics include her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama, her influential career in New York politics and activism, and her significant impact on racial justice initiatives and education.

TEHRAN - 'Suffragette', a historical drama about women's suffrage in the UK directed by Sarah Gavron, will be reviewed at the Iranian Artists Forum on Tuesday. Philosophy expert Parisa Shakurzadeh [...]

ATLANTA, Oct. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 19[sup.th], 2023, The Bierenbaum Family Foundation sponsored a speaking engagement by an Atlanta-based Civil Rights Legend to women leaders at Rider University [...]

London: University of Bristol has issued the following news release: A life-sized model of a suffragette named Hope, who is built out of 32,327 LEGO bricks, has gone on display [...]

Byline: Anjli Mohindra My first major role on an award-winning, crowd-rousing, primetime British television show, Bodyguard, as the suicide-bomber Nadia, became a national talking point on the portrayal of South [...]

Byline: Rowan Moore My mother's aunt, Kathleen Brown, was a suffragette. She was imprisoned for throwing stones in Whitehall, and then received a hero's welcome when she returned to her [...]

1876: The first recognisable words were transmitted by telephone over 100ft of wire. Speaking to his assistant, inventor Alexander Graham Bell said: 'Mr Watson, come here, I want to see [...]

London: The University of Edinburgh has issued the following news release: The University of Edinburgh is exhibiting a 32,000 Lego brick statue to help tell the story of women's suffrage [...]

Byline: Jennifer On January 5, 1893, a doctor dressed as a courtier to Louis XVI stopped on his way to a costume ball to deliver a baby girl. This was [...]

Byline: Susannah Clapp Simon Stone's Phaedra is unlike anything I've experienced before. It is one way forward for the theatre. Amazing velocity of delivery; action reaching into all corners of [...]

Byline: Nick Curtis FIRST NIGHT Sylvia Old Vic, SE1.... THOUGH this hip-hop musical about Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst's struggles for female emancipation and with each other is delivered with verve [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 4 stars So many shows seem to want to be the new Hamilton. This witty, high-voltage musical about feminist firebrand Sylvia Pankhurst just might be [...]

Byline: Helen BROWN 'People are calling Sylvia 'a Suffragette musical',' says Kate Prince, whose all-singing Pankhurst saga is about to hit the stage. 'But, at its heart, it's the story [...]

Byline: By, Ros Wynne Jones Outside Southwark Crown Court in London, climate activists are gathering to support the 'Barclays 7' -- a group of women who broke windows at the [...]