Follow the links below to find out more about the incredible women featured in the Radical women trail.
The women of Peterloo, by curator and historian Helen Antrobus
‘The Belle Alliance’, Women and the Peterloo Massacre, with PHM’s Head of Collections & Engagement, Jenny Mabbot
Commemorative Peterloo Massacre Handkerchief, with researcher Steven Franklin
The Match Girls’ Strike, by Sam Johnson, great granddaughter of Sarah Chapman, one of the leaders of the 1888 strike
The Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 recounted by Annie Besant, read by actor Sarah Whitehouse
The Manchester suffragette banner: Mancunian pride, mystery and celebrity! By PHM’s Head of Collections & Engagement, Jenny Mabbot
Who Unfurled The Manchester ‘First In The Fight’ WSPU Banner? By researcher and writer Elizabeth Crawford
The Manchester Women’s Social and Political Union Banner, 1908, with PHM’s Head of Collections & Engagement, Jenny Mabbot
Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick strike, by PHM’s Researcher Dr Shirin Hirsch
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