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Turner Contemporary are currently staging Steve McQueen’s landmark photographic exhibition ‘Resistance’ exploring the history of protest in Britain. Including the 1920 Blind Persons March to London that led to PM Lloyd George meeting a deputation of its organizers. #TowerEquality
Erin Pizzey is an Archives Hall of Fame inductee for her determination to set up Chiswick Women’s Aid despite fierce opposition (see Judgment). Tate Britain’s ‘Women In Revolt!’ exhibition includes photographs taken by Christine Voge documenting life at the refuge. #TowerEquality
In 1979 Maureen Colquhoun MP made a speech supporting the Soho Reclaim the Night march. Posters for the marches also feature in the Tate Britain 'Women in Revolt' exhibition, designed and printed by Sue Stiles at the Lenthall Road Workshop in 1982. #TowerEquality
Tate Britain’s latest exhibition ‘Women in Revolt!’ celebrates UK feminist art. This month’s themed week showcases our collection items whose subjects inspired some of the exhibits. Like Sheila Hilda Walsh’s knitted cardigans worn on the 1976 Grunwick picket line. #TowerEquality
Lady Sue Carr was recently appointed as the first Lady Chief Justice in October 2023. In December 1919, the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed, so women were no longer disqualified from certain professions by sex or marriage, including judicial office. #TowerEquality
Today is the beginning of Disability History Month. From our collection, here is a petition from 1992 calling for legislation to outlaw disability discrimination. A few years later, in 1995, the Disability Discrimination Act was finally passed. #TowerEquality
Ten years ago, this week the landmark Marriage (Same Sex) Couples Act was passed by Parliament & made law. A truly seminal piece of legislation that remains of huge symbolic importance for the country’s LGBTQ+ community. The first weddings took place in March 2014. #TowerEquality
When Baroness Warnock died four years ago many tributes focused on her efforts in the field of special educational needs. In May 1978 the Committee she chaired published a report that recommended learning-disabled children be taught in the mainstream school system. #TowerEquality
Today is the 30th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence's death. From our archives, the McPherson Report published after a Public Inquiry into his racially motivated murder. The report uncovered police failings and accused the Metropolitan Police of institutional racism. #TowerEquality
#OTD in 1960, demonstrators in Sharpeville protested against pass laws that racially segregated South Africa, and they were shot at by police officers. This became known as the Sharpeville Massacre. From our archive, a pamphlet on Race Problems in South Africa. #TowerEquality
On this day in 1918, The representation of the People Act reformed the electoral system and gave women over 30 who met a property qualification the right to vote! It was a positive step forward in the fight for equality within the women’s movement. #TowerEquality
Women's suffrage was hard fought, with many against the cause, like the Men’s League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. This letter from 1910 organised a meeting of the League at a Smoking Concert. This League and others like it disbanded after the 1918 Act was passed. #TowerEquality
It's that time of year to compile your No1s of 2022. At the flicks we’ve chosen ‘My Policeman’ as our favourite film. Starring Harry Styles, it’s a great depiction of the social pressures attached to homosexuality in the 50s when the Wolfenden Report was published. #TowerEquality
One of the most controversial cases of the seventies was heard in the Old Bailey in July 77. A blasphemy libel involving moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse & Gay News regarding a poem the paper published. A later appeal was petitioned to the House of Lords Judiciary. #TowerEquality
Its June 1964 & playwright Joe Orton is the darling of the theatrical scene with the opening of his new play ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’. Before production begun the script was assessed by the Lord Chamberlain's censor. See cuts below – the rude words are covered up!! #TowerEquality
Trade Unionist Bill Morris accepted a Life Peerage in April 2006 & was given the title Baron Morris of Handsworth. As General Secretary of the TGWU (1992-2003) he'd been the first black leader of a major British Trade Union. Below his Writ of Summons. #TowerEquality @bcaheritage
"The Swabey Case" was an enquiry into Lieutenant-Commander Christopher Swabey's dismissal from the Navy. The "indecent behaviour" leading to Swabey's dismissal was related to his LGBT identity. The enquiry followed 13 years of Swabey's campaigning & self-advocacy. #TowerEquality
February 1975 saw Lord Scarman publish his much-awaited report into the Red Lion Square Disorders. In the previous June violence at a National Front rally resulted in the death of an activist. Scarman hoped to stem the influence of far-right groups on UK society. #TowerEquality
In the mid 1900s, Section 14 of the British Army Act classed homosexual activity between soldiers as "gross indecency". Lord Colwyn, an army captain and Peer, was arrested under this Act in Dec 1947. The Lords' response to Colwyn's arrest is mentioned in this note. #TowerEquality
To mark the beginning of Disability History Month, here is a photograph of MP Alf Morris. He introduced the important 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act including the blue badge scheme. #UKDHM #TowerEquality
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