Street art · London
Photo: Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0
Sylvia Pankhurst
Who was the woman who wielded a pen like a rifle? This rusted steel silhouette honors Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette firebrand, cut with WWI-era protest slogans in a style echoing war memorial cenotaphs.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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