Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst, Friend of Ethiopia, Statue Proposed

Planning has begun to erect a statue in London in the honour of Sylvia Pankhurst, the former British Suffragette, who devoted the last twenty years of her life to the cause of Ethiopian independence and progress. Sylvia Pankhurst’s interest in Ethiopia began in 1934 at the time of the Wal Wal incident, which the Fascist …

A Glimpse at My Mother’s Archives

This week, and next, I dip into the records relating to Africa in 1936-40, of my mother, Sylvia Pankhurst, who edited “New Times and Ethiopia News” (here abbreviated as N.T. ; E.N.), a pro-Ethiopian, and Anti-Fascist weekly newspaper, at the time. I present the following excerpts fom her African correspondence, with a minimum of comment. …