The Pankhurst

27/08/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOUR VOTE! 🚨

There's still time to vote for us in the Findmypast & Heritage Open Days Everyday History Heroes competition... and we need your help!

We could win £1,000, which would make an amazing difference to our work as the UK's only suffragette museum, helping us preserve and share the story of the fight for women's right to vote for future generations.

Every vote counts, so if you haven't voted yet, please take a moment to support us — and help us spread the word by sharing this post! 💜🤍💚

⏰ Voting closes at midnight on 1st September.

👉 Vote for us here: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-history-heroes-north-west

26/08/2026

As part of this year's Heritage Open Days festival, the Pankhurst Museum will be free to visit on Sunday 13th and Sunday 20th September! 💜🤍💚

You can explore the museum, chalk graffiti in the garden, take a suffragette selfie in the parlour and try out a craft activity. All activities are free on these special open days!

Although entry is free, booking via our website or Eventbrite is preferred. Make sure you select Sunday 13th or Sunday 20th September when booking! We hope to see you soon.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visit-the-pankhurst-museum-tickets-1132329892189

24/08/2026

Donate to the Pankhurst Museum! 💜🤍💚

Your donations help to keep the museum open and we would appreciate any contributions, big or small. You can easily donate through text! Text PANK to 70085 to donate £5. Texts will cost the donation amount plus on standard network rate message.

We hope you will support us in preserving the legacy of the Pankhursts and the suffragette movement! 💪

21/08/2026

🦁 This is Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as the Lioness of Lisabi 🦁

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas in October 1900 was a passionate feminist, anti-colonial activist and educator from Nigeria. Her tireless fight mobilised thousands of women across Nigeria against unjust taxation, lack of political representation and oppressive legislature that prevented them from doing things such as driving cars. Funmilayo founded the Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU) to enable women to organise in a more official and effective way!

🌟 A fierce champion of universal suffrage and girls' education, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti served as the sole female delegate in Nigeria's 1947 constitutional talks in London. Renowned as the first Nigerian woman to drive a car, first female student at Abeokuta Grammar School, and the first woman to become a political chief in Abeokuta, she earned the Lenin Peace Prize in 1970 for her lifelong global fight for equality.

🌍 Interested in learning more about suffrage activists from all over the world? Join us at the Pankhurst Museum to hear all about women like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. The exhibition is open until Thursday 3rd September. We are open every Thursday and Sunday, 11am-4pm (last entry 3pm). Tickets are £5 per adult, under 16s go free!

Book now by visiting www.pankhurstmuseum.com

19/08/2026

Join us at the Pankhurst Museum for another free event for Heritage Open Days! 💜🤍💚

Find out more about the link between working-class suffragettes and public health with activities included. There will also be the opportunity to explore our small but mighty museum!

🎟 Tickets are free, but pre-booking is preferred via Eventbrite. We hope to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hard-way-up-free-museum-event-tickets-1995108060917 /

18/08/2026

13/08/2026

You are invited to a free talk at the Pankhurst Museum as part of Heritage Open Days 2026! 💜🤍💚

On 13th October 1905, Christabel Pankhurst was arrested for the first militant activity of the suffragette campaign, disrupting a political meeting and assaulting a police officer. She was sentenced to serve time in Strangeways Prison. It was Christabel's first arrest.

A week later, Mary M'Ginty was arrested for assaulting a police officer while drunk and disorderly. When she faced the magistrates, she told them she was 'putting on the Pankhurst' to explain why she spat at the arresting officers. She was also sent to Strangeways Prison. It was Mary's 148th arrest (and far from her last).

But who was Mary M'Ginty? Join us for a special talk for Heritage Open Days to find out! 🔎 /

Using a vast array of sources (including birth records, censuses, newspapers, workhouse records and prison admissions), Dr Hannah Priest (Heritage Manager at the Pankhurst Museum and author of Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Museum) tells the life of Mary M'Ginty in all its riotous, raucous and tragic detail. Covering the history of Irish migration to Manchester, as well as workhouse and prison history, Mary's story is a truly memorable Mancunian tale.

🎟 Tickets are free, but booking is required via Eventbrite. We would love to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-long-riotous-and-completely-disreputable-life-of-mary-mginty-rogue-tickets-1989541267488

11/08/2026

We recently received a wonderful message from Harriet, a Year 6 student in New South Wales, Australia who chose Emmeline Pankhurst as the subject of her Change Makers project, spending a whole term learning about her life, her bravery, her courage and the fight for women to vote. We love this inspiring quote from Harriet:

"As I reflected on her great achievements - co-founding the WSPU and the WFL while leading the suffragettes to claim women’s rights to vote in Britain - I began to think about my own life and how lucky we are to live in such an equal society compared to her time. Her story taught me to always keep trying, never give up, to fight for my rights and to stand up for others. I feel changed from what I have learnt about her, I feel stronger, braver, more persistent and like I will never give up hope.

Thank you for preserving her long-lasting bravery, never-ending determination and her empowering legacy. She has inspired me so much and I wish she were here now to read this so she could know that she is appreciated. Since that is not possible, I will leave this with you."

We appreciate this lovely message from Harriet and always love to see lasting impact of the suffragette movement and how it continues to inspire the younger generation! 💜🤍💚

07/08/2026

'Women, we must do the work ourselves... Come to my house and we will arrange it!'
Saturday, 10 October 2026
1-3pm

On 10 October 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst invited a small group of women to 62 Nelson Street and founded the Women's Social and Political Union (The Suffragettes). We invite you to celebrate that anniversary with Susanna Rustin, author, and leader writer on social affairs at The Guardian. Susanna will be launching the revised paperback edition of her book Sexed: A History of British Feminism at the Pankhurst Museum. A radical retelling of the story of British feminism from the 1790s to the present day. Susanna's history explores the background and development of suffragist and suffragette campaigns. Then, as now, she highlights the debates within and between groups of women as to how best advance women's rights, giving us a context in which to understand better the Pankhursts, the WSPU and feminism more widely.

Join us to discuss the book and celebrate the anniversary of one of the most important milestones in British feminist history. We will also be launching our new 'Friends of the Pankhurst Museum' scheme and invite you to celebrate with us this milestone in the museum's history.

You will be able to purchase signed copies of Sexed and other merchandise at the museum shop.

Your ticket price includes discussion of the book, a guided visit to the Pankhurst Museum and refreshments.

Tickets: £10

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sexed-book-launch-at-the-pankhurst-tickets-1997143157947

06/08/2026

A big thank you to Soroptimist International Manchester for coming along to our celebration of Emmeline Pankhurst's birthday earlier this month. 💜🤍💚

We always value your support and the cakes were amazing! It was a great way to celebrate the suffragette icon and a successful birthday party! 🎂🎉