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Katherine Connelly

Katherine Connelly

Dr Katherine Connelly is a historian, activist and lecturer at the London centres of NYU and Boston University. She is the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013); she edited and introduced E. Sylvia Pankhurst, A Suffragette in America (2019). 

Remembering the Algerian roots of 1848 June Days massacre

The brutal suppression of the working-class June Days uprising in Paris 175 years ago had its roots in the colonial violence of the French state, argues Katherine Connelly.

24 June, 2023

Iraq War 20 years: No one expected schoolchildren to protest

When the UK government declared it was joining the US-led invasion of Iraq, young people defied expectations & organised mass anti-war campaigns in schools & communities. Katherine Connelly reflects on the impact of their resistance to the Iraq War.

03 April, 2023