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Beverley Knight: ‘Prince encouraged me to be bold’

The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin

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

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

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More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists

Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy among those saying they ‘stand with’ protesters

The Guardian - UK

From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the ‘cripple suffragette’ – 10 heroes of the disabled rights movement

Brad Lomax in the US, Rosa May Billinghurst in the UK, Javed Abid in India … these are the men and women I wish I had known about as a disabled child

The Guardian - UK

The new Manchester hotel in an "amazing location" with rooms from £75 a night

"It was a joy to peek out of the window"

Manchester Evening News

Mum's anguish as baby twin died in womb and sibling was born with no heartbeat

Helen Hudson hopes to raise awareness for World Prematurity Day after losing on of her twins due to complications

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World Prematurity Day: Family of baby born without heartbeat celebrates first birthday

Helen Hudson gave birth to twins Beatrice and Emmeline in 2021

Wales Online

Mother’s agony as baby dies from rare ‘twin to twin transfusion’ syndrome

Helen Hudson, 40, gave birth to twins Beatrice and Emmeline in 2021, only the latter of whom survived

The Independent UK

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

Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history

Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.

WEKU

First Thing: Rishi Sunak becomes UK’s PM after meeting the king

Ex-chancellor is third Tory prime minister in less than two months and fifth in six years. Plus, the history of radical art protest by women

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

The Guardian - UK

Eco-warriors attack Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with Heinz soup – here are the other famous acts of art vandalism

What is it about art that activists (love to) hate so much?

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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

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 Independent UK

Beverley Knight to star as suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in musical

The musical returns for a limited run from January 27 to April 1 2023.

Edinburgh Live

We saw the Edinburgh Fringe show championing brilliant women and it packed a punch

The cast put on a phenomenal performance packed full of energy and passion that was maintained all the way throughout the powerful and captivating show

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The National (Scotland)

Fantastically great women take to the stage at the Fringe

WHEN Kate Pankhurst discovered that celebrated suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was a distant cousin, she had recently graduated from an illustration…

Daily Mirror

Hollyoaks' Richard Blackwood threatened with knife - and son has weapon pulled on him too

Hollyoaks star Richard Blackwood said he was just a teenager when he was robbed at knifepoint in London. Sickeningly, his son Keaun had a similar experience when he was aged just 11

Glasgow Live

Fascinating footage explores creepy abandoned Paisley hospital plagued by vandalism

Since the old Royal Alexandra Infirmary building was closed in 1987, some of the wings were refurbished and repurposed - though others have been left to the elements.

The Guardian - UK

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World review – superhero sisters

Rousing children’s musical provides a zippy guide to the great women of history that sets toes tapping and young minds alight

Manchester Evening News

Manchester Day 2022: 11 ways Manchester changed the world

From splitting the atom, to the first modern computer Manchester has a long and rich history of invention and innovation

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.

Daily Mirror

Repair Shop experts save priceless heirloom of suffragette after it was gnawed by mouse

An autograph book belonging to a suffragette who once chained herself to the railings on Downing Street pays a visit to The Repair Shop on Wednesday night's episode of the BBC hit show

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