{"id":44745,"date":"2026-06-15T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=44745"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:06:42","slug":"sylvia-pankhurst-the-honorary-ethiopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2026\/06\/15\/sylvia-pankhurst-the-honorary-ethiopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Pankhurst &#8211; The Honorary Ethiopian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/uweacuk-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/christopher12_brown_uwe_ac_uk\/_layouts\/15\/embed.aspx?UniqueId=a0a0371f-759a-4b5d-a15a-860eb2a1fe5d&#038;embed=%7B%22hvm%22%3Atrue%2C%22ust%22%3Atrue%7D&#038;referrer=StreamWebApp&#038;referrerScenario=EmbedDialog.Create\" width=\"1280\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen title=\"Katie_Clarke_audio_doc.mp4\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A century ago, a fatigued suffragette retreated to the Essex countryside, opening a tea shop while recovering from burnout. But Sylvia Pankhurst\u2019s story didn\u2019t end there &#8211; she defied convention, embraced late motherhood, and forged an unlikely yet powerful friendship with Ethiopia\u2019s King, Emperor Haile Selassie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this audio-rich documentary we hear the lesser-known story of how a renowned British feminist, socialist and single mother became one of Ethiopia\u2019s fiercest allies, and explore why this history has been largely overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century ago, a fatigued suffragette retreated to the Essex countryside, opening a tea shop while recovering from burnout. But Sylvia Pankhurst\u2019s story didn\u2019t end there &#8211; she defied convention, embraced late motherhood, and forged an unlikely yet powerful friendship with Ethiopia\u2019s King, Emperor Haile Selassie. In this audio-rich documentary we hear the lesser-known story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":44747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1790,1788],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-docs","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44746,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44745\/revisions\/44746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}