An incredible book – an engaging social history but also with an activist’s lens looking forward. Informative, enlightening, and with the potential to change women’s lives. Read Deeds not Words – now!

In order to go forwards, we sometimes need to look back, to truly appreciate where we’ve come from and where we need to go. This is why Deeds not Words is so timely at this juncture. It will serve as a valuable guide and reference to anyone who wants to understand the Women’s Movement in more depth. I am deeply grateful to Helen for writing it

An engaging book and call to action, full of insightful quotes and staggering statistics, vividly reflecting the diversity of British women’s lives and their journeys as agents of change.

Amusing, inspiring and disturbing . . . The conversational tone of her book is welcome in the midst of a reactive 24/7 news cycle. Instead of hectoring, Pankhurst reflects. She moves from legislation to culture and social media to examine how women’s experiences are shaped by external forces. There is even a Mean Girls reference thrown in for good measure.

Helen Pankhurst lives up to the hopes and expectations of her family name. The various, and often different, ideas of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters are fully represented and through that readers are invited to consider the many issues and campaigns that feminism has fought and continues to fight. An exciting and engaging account of an essential part of British history.

Conversational, analytical, big-picture sweep of history, directional and – most importantly – wholly accessible. Literally words that make me want to get up and go do deeds, thinking all along the way!

Deeds not Words is for anyone who wants to know how far women have come in the long cold march to equality – by the great grand-daughter of one of our finest leaders. But its more important job is to shine a light on how far we have yet to go. Helen Pankhurst leaves very few stones unturned in this forensic look at the last 100 years of women’s history.