sylvia pankhurst meeting

Sylvia Pankhurst – Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

Speaker Katherine Connelly

Wednesday 15 May 7pm

VENUE Bishopsgate Institute

Katherine Connelly is the author of a new biography of Sylvia Pankhurst which examines her life of activism from her teens as a member of the Independent Labour Party, to her time as a leading suffragette before the First World War, through to her socialist, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist campaigns in later years.

Katherine will examine Pankhurst’s unique contribution to a working class suffragette militancy and will show how her pioneering anti-imperialism shaped her whole life’s activity.

Katherine is at Queen Mary where she is completing her phD on ‘Karl Marx and Parisian popular culture in the 1840s’.