With thanks to:
Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA)
PHM Radicals:
- VIV ANDERSON
First black footballer to represent England
Sponsored by The Football Association
- CLEMENT ATTLEE
Labour Prime Minister
Sponsored by The Brighton family in memory of Samuel Blackburn (1838-1882)
- SAMUEL BAMFORD
English radical reformer and was one of the leaders in the Peterloo protests
Sponsored by Robert Poole
- TONY BENN
Labour politician
Sponsored by Nigel Taylor
- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Socialist writer
Sponsored by Sir Trevor Chinn
- ANNIE BESANT
Socialist, women’s rights activist, writer and philanthropist
Sponsored byThe Monks Family
- ANEURIN ‘NYE’ BEVAN
Labour Part Politican and Minister for Health
Sponsored by Steve and Heledd Hayes
Previously sponsored by UNISON
- ERNEST BEVIN
Leader of the TGWU and Labour Foreign Secretary
Sponsored by Lord Lea of Crondall
- RT HON TONY BLAIR
Labour Prime Minister
Sponsored by Baroness Prosser, Baroness Morgan of Huyton and Lord Cashman CBE
- MARGARET BONDFIELD
Labour MP and first female Cabinet Minister
Sponsored by Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
- MELVYN BRAGG*
Labour peer and broadcaster who campaigns for the arts and education
Sponsored by Baroness Jan Royall
- GORDON BROWN*
Labour politician
Sponsored by Lord Wilf Stevenson
- JAMES CALLAGHAN
Labour Prime Minister
Sponsored by the Family of Baroness Jay of Paddington
Previously sponsored by Lord Lea of Crondall
- BARBARA CASTLE
Labour Cabinet Minister
Sponsored by the Jack Straw
Previously sponsored by Leigh Day Solicitors
- WINSTON CHURCHILL
Wartime Prime Minister
Sponsored by Sir Victor and Lady Blank
- BOB CROW
Socialist & General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
Sponsored by National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Workers
- WILLIAM CUFFAY
Chartist Leader who was the son of a former slave
Sposnored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH)
- DAGENHAM FORD SEWING MACHINISTS
Their strike in 1968 for equal pay for men and women led to the 197 Equal Pay Act. However, the fight goes on…
Sponsored by ASLEF
Previously sponsored by First Actuarial LLP
- BRENDA DEAN
Trade Unionist & Labour Politician
Sponsored by Keith McDowall & Family
- JAYABEN DESAI
Leader of the Grunwick Dispute
Sponsored by Lord and Lady Bassam
- WILLIE GALACHER*
Trade unionist, activist for workers’ rights & Communist MP
Sponsored by John and Lola Deighan
- MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT
Leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Sponsored by the National Education Union
- WAL HANNINGTON*
Founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain and organiser of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement
Sponsored by the Socialist History Society
- ABEL HEYWOOD
Radical, publisher and independent Mayor of Manchester
Sponsored by Michael Elston
- ERIC LANE BURSLEM*
BALPA’s first Chairman and campaigner for air safety
Sponsored by BALPA
- LESBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MINERS (LGSM)
Alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported National Union of Mineworkers during a year-long strike
Sponsored by LGSM Pride
- MARY MACARTHUR
Scottish suffragist, serving as the general secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League
Sponsored by Vicky Phillips
- THOMAS PAINE
English-born American political activist and revolutionary, known for ‘The Rights of Man’
Sponsored by Melvyn and Gabriel Bragg
- EMMELINE PANKHURST
Founder of the Suffragette movement in the UK
Sponsored by ACCORD Union
- SYLVIA PANKHURST
Leading suffragette and political campaigner
Sponsored by MAPS Medical
- CHARLIE ROBERTS
Founder of the PFA and leader of Outcasts FC who threatened strike action in order to gain recognition for the Players’ Union
Sponsored by The PFA
- THE SEX PISTOLS
Punk band who attacked the cultural conservatism of the 1970s
Sponsored by Wayne Garvie
- JOHN SMITH
Labour Party politician who served as the leader of the party from 1992 until 1994
Sponsored by Lord Haskell
- THOMAS SPENCE*
English Radical, advocate of universal suffrage and for the common ownership of land
Sponsored by Baroness Beeban Kidron & Lee Hall
- SIR SIGMUNG STERNBERG*
Hungarian-British philanthropist, and international interfaith campaigner
Sponsored by Michael Sternberg QC
- EDITH SUMMERSKILL
Hungarian-British philanthropist, and international interfaith campaigner
Sponsored by Mary Honeyball
- W H THOMPSON*
Civil rights lawyer and founder member of the National Council For Civil Liberties
Sponsored by The family of W H Thompson
- THE TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS
Trade unionists transported to Australia for swearing a secret oath
Sponsored by Thompsons Solicitors
- ALAN TURING
Mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Persecuted for being gay
Sponsored by Bernard Donoghue
- VICTIMS OF PETERLOO
Slaughtered while peacefully demanding votes for all
Sponsored by the TUC
- ELLEN WILKINSON
Labour MP who led the Jarrow March
Generously sponsored by an anonymous major donor, whose gift has had a transformative impact on the museum
Previously sponsored by The Monks Family
* Additional Radicals nominated by Sponsors
