Spirited is a new exhibition at The Portico that tells the stories of some of the young women and girls who fought for the vote 100 years ago, centring on Manchester as the birthplace of the suffrage movement. It brings to life their incredible acts of courage, creativity and cunning in order to inspire today’s young people into taking their own first steps into social action.

It’s curated by Catherine Riley of Spirit of 2012, and runs until November 24th 2018.

For the last few months I have been working on a digital version of the physical display.  It features all the artefacts from the physical show, plus a timeline and some downloadable key stage 3 teaching resources written by archivist Heather Roberts.

http://www.spirited.org.uk/

Spirited is funded by Spirit of 2012, established by the Big Lottery Fund with a £47m endowment from the National Lottery. One of Spirit’s goals for 2018 is to empower, inspire and engage young women and girls – it is funding a range of projects that provide opportunities for making change through social activism.

Spirited features items from the collections of the BBC archives, the BFI, Bishopsgate Institute, British Library, Museum of London and the Women’s Library at LSE, which together offer an exciting new perspective on the suffrage story in a positive, youth-focused celebration of gender equality.