In the news Sylvia Pankhurst
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A Foreign Office official described her as a “horrid old harridan”, with the official saying he hoped she would be “choked to death with her own pamphlets”
Prof Roey Sweet, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) director of partnerships and engagement, said: “Sylvia Pankhurst is generally remembered today simply as a militant suffragette, but the exciting discovery of these letters reminds us that her fight for women’s political rights was part of her lifelong commitment to socialist and revolutionary politics, pacifism and internationalism.”
Maybe we could send them a complimentary copy of our pamphlet
Sylvia Pankhurst, the socialist painter
George Bernard Shaw once compared her to Joan of Arc, describing her as both “miraculous” and “unbearable”
An opinion piece on Sylvia by Martin Kettle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/26/sylvia-pankhurst-politics-suffragette
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