The event starts at 3.30pm. At 4pm SPMC member Megan Dobney will update you on the statue campaign. Alfio Bernabei will speak on the Italian community in Clerkenwell’s Little Italy, and Emma Beattie will speak for Sylvia!
The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee, historian Alfio Bernabei, and the management of The Gunmakers, are delighted to invite you to join us on Saturday 25 March 2023 at 3.30pm to commemorate:
In March 1923, 100 years ago, Sylvia Pankhurst spoke at what is now The Gunmakers (but was then an Italian social club “Dondi’s”) against the growing fascist threat. This was perhaps the first publicly advertised anti-fascist meeting in the United Kingdom.
Sylvia Pankhurst had a strong link with the Italian community in Clerkenwell, the so-called ‘Little Italy’ which extended to Clerkenwell Green and its surroundings.
This link with the Italian community became organic from the moment she met the Italian refugee Silvio Corio in around 1917 who subsequently became her lifelong partner.
Come and join us at 3.30pm and celebrate the progress towards raising the statue of this extraordinary woman on Clerkenwell Green. At 4pm there will be an introduction to the statue campaign (Megan Dobney), a presentation on what Little Italy in Clerkenwell looked like at the time (Alfio Bernabei, historian on the Italian community in the UK), and a theatrical presentation of Sylvia’s speech.
The rest of the afternoon is to continue the conversation and socialise!
Saturday 25 March 2023, 3.30pm at The Gunmakers, 13 Eyre Street Hill, London EC1R 5ET.
The Gunmakers offers cocktails, wine, beer and soft drinks, plus authentic Tacos and sharing plates – in other words their kitchen is awaiting your orders…
