Really good news that Nazanin has been released on furlough, credit to tireless campaigning by husband Richard and her friends. But being in prison AT ALL is gross injustice and she must be PERMANENTLY released for which every effort will continue Free Nazanin

COULD you make today count & tweet some #love to Jess (10) on end of life care after battling #cancer for 7yrs? She’s brave & despite all she’s going through she still smiling..Could you help Jess, please? It only takes a sec.. Help Jess Beat Boris #RoarForJess 🦁 Please Share ❤️

We are so excited for the start of our 27th annual conference tomorrow 'The Campaign for Women's Suffrage: National and International Persepectives'. #WHN27 #Vote100 #WomenInHistory

This quotation from Emmeline Pankhurst's Bow Street trial speech helps explain strong overlap between suffragettes and first women lawyers. Prof June Purvis #WHN2018 #whn27

Totally agree with every single word of this. Thank you Gordon Brown OfficeGSBrown Jewish Labour Movement

A Tale of Two Sisters, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst - first shown on Yesterday TV 8th September and be watched online on UKTV Play uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/channel/yester… which is a free service.

For those of you who have contacted me - Caroline Criado Perez's formal complaint to The Guardian about my letter published on 22 August, that it contained inaccuracies and should be deleted, was not upheld. End of story.

Shami Chakrabarti, Sisters Uncut and Prof June Purvis speaking on Vote vs Voice - the fight for democracy inside and outside the law - is at @PHMMcr on 8th Nov! How exciting! Please share, share, share!

At Portsmouth Central Library today I opened a 'Thank You' Royal British Legion Exhibition to some inspirational women of First World War including forgotten women such as poet Beatrix Brice Miller and Betty Stevenson who worked at a YMCA cateen in France. Fascinating & poignant

115 years ago today the WSPU was founded at 62 Nelson Street Manchester by Emmeline & Christabel Pankhurst and some local socialist women. From such small beginnings, an inspiring movement for women began ...

Please read Royal Historical Society Report 'Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History'. It highlights how History staff less diverse than other UK university staff, 85% of all academics white but 93.7% of historians. Depressing but important reading.

Saw Mike Leigh's film Peterloo today. Brilliant - and I shed a tear. The contempt that ruling classes had for working men demanding their democratic right to vote & for Manchester to have an elected MP. No mention of votes for women but echoes into the suffragette movement.

The 13th December, night before unveiling of Emmeline Pankhurst's statue, I am giving a lecture at 6pm about her at Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building …line-pankhurst-lecture.eventbrite.com

Forgot to say, apparently funding for the statue of Annie Kenney has not been reached. If anyone can contribute, however small an amount, the organisers be most grateful. Think you can find details on google.

Expect you all have noticed that all the winners in the various categories for BBC Icons - are men….Leaders (Mandela), Explorers (Shackleton), Scientists (Turing), Enterntainers (Bowie), Activists (Mandela), Sports (Muhammad Ali). Do women not make history too????

Great news, Maureen - will look forward to seeing the statue when it is finally erected.

We fully support Keir Starmer's call for separate Universal Credit payments. Perpetrators use single payments to control their victim, restrict her access to money, and make it even harder for her to leave. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

History UK statement on cuts to Arts and Humanities in Higher Education history-uk.ac.uk/2020/10/23/his…

You will never be forgotten, Sarah. Blessings for you, your family and close friends, and those many people who grieve for your loss. We must do more to stop this kind of assault on women ever happening again.

What lovely news in the midst of this brutal, illegal war Putin is waging on a democratic, sovereign country in Europe. Dogs are very intelligent.