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Britain on the March
‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’ – Margaret Mead Britain was built on protest. From Magna Carta to the suffragettes, the Peasants’ Revolt to the Iraq War; British people have never been afraid to take to the street. Protest: Britain on the March takes a look at the lengths that ordinary people will go to make their voices heard, all through the lens of Mirrorpix’s incredible photo archive.
1st February, 2023 in Society & Culture
June marks the beginning of Pride month, a month-long celebration and recognition of the LGBTQ+ community, the history and future of gay rights and relevant civil rights movements. To commemorate this, we’re highlighting some people throughout history that may not be as well know…
26th August, 2021 in Society & Culture, Women in History
In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to Greenham Common to protest American nuclear missiles on British soil. Greenham Common Peace Camp lasted for 19 years in one of the most successful examples of collective female activism since the suffragettes. Bridget Boudewijn vi…
24th November, 2017 in Society & Culture, Women in History
Women in Britain aged over 30 got the vote in 1918, but they weren’t the first women to vote in Britain. Political history is often dominated by characters who have certain things in common; they are well-connected, well-educated, wealthy. Lily Maxwell was none of thes…
6th November, 2017 in History, Society & Culture
The Civil War threw up new men with values and ideas that separated them from their Tudor forebears: everything was to be questioned and everything debated. Thomas Venner was one such new man, born of the lower orders, bred in the fulcrum of the civil wars, reasonably educated, f…
10th March, 2017 in History, Local & Family History, Society & Culture
March 2017 marked two hundred years since the Manchester Radicals (better known as the ‘Blanketeers’) organised a demonstration with the intention of marching to London to petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the textile industry in Lancashire and the recent sus…
19th July, 2016 in Society & Culture, Women in History
The Women’s Suffrage Pilgrimage of July 1913 was a peaceful march designed to show the British government the sheer number of women from across the country who demanded the right to vote. Members of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) set off on foot, or some…
18th December, 2015 in Society & Culture
In June 2014 Sajid Javid, the then newly appointed Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, paid a visit to Hyde Park for a press conference marking the completion of revamped landscaping at Speakers’ Corner. It was a Thursday morning, so he should have been safe: no Sunda…
