Manchester’s Pankhurst Centre reopens: a look behind the scenes at its new Suffragette exhibition

The landmark site, the former home of the Pankhurst Suffragettes, was closed for 18 months during the pandemic.

Now reopen at Nelson Street, near Manchester Royal Infirmary, the museum has revealed a new permanent exhibition, called ‘At Home with the Pankhurst Family’.

The exhibition enables visitors to get to know the people behind the iconic Pankhurst name. It also includesa look at the influences from both within the family and the radical city of Manchester in which they lived.

The building was the home of the Pankhursts from 1898-1907. It then became the birthplace of the suffragette movement in 1903 - the movement which saw the members fight for the right for women to vote.

The family ran the movement from the house until they moved to London in 1907.

In the 1980s, campaigners squatted in the building to save it from demolition. They then raised enough money to turn the house into the Pankhurst Centre which opened in 1987.

For the first time ever, the centre will be starting a new programme of school visits later this month.