Sponsored Radicals
Sponsored Radicals
Thank you to our Radical Sponsors, whose donations are making a huge difference to the museum’s future:
- 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
- ANNIE BESANT
Socialist, women’s rights activist, writer and philanthropist
Sponsored by The Monks Family
- ANEURIN ‘NYE’ BEVAN
Labour Party politician, Minister for Health
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 Lord Lea of Crondall
- BARBARA CASTLE
Labour Party politician who helped bring about the Equal Pay Act
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 (RMT) Workers
Sponsored by National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Workers
- DAGENHAM FORD MACHINISTS
Their strike in 1968 for equal pay for men and women led to the 1970 Equal Pay Act. However, the fight goes on…
Sponsored by First Actuarial LLP
- BRENDA DEAN
Trade Unionist & Labour Politician
Sponsored by Keith McDowall & Family
- ALF DUBS
Labour peer who campaigned for changes to the Immigration Act
Sponsored by Lord and Lady Bassam
- VICTOR GRAYSON
Independent Labour Party MP for Colne Valley
Sponsored by Lord David Clark
- HENRY HUNT Radical orator who was arrested at Peterloo
Sponsored by Society for the Study of Labour History
- ERIC LANE BURSLEM* BALPA’s first Chairman and campaigner for air safety
Sponsored by BALPA
- MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT Leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Sponsored by the National Education Union
- 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
- PAUL ROBESON
Singer and civil rights activist
Sponsored by Susie Orbach
- 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
- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Socialist writer
Sponsored by Sir Trevor Chinn
- 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
- PETER TATCHELL
Human rights campaigner
Sponsored by John Deighan
- 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
Previously sponsored by The Monks Family
* Additional Radicals nominated by Sponsors