Tributes are due to Sylvia Pankhurst and Gertrude Bell | Letters

Sylvia Pankhurst’s political life is celebrated by Ian Bullock, while James Hutchinson suggests how Gertrude Bell could be honouredMartin Kettle’s article is very timely (How the past can help us reach across political divides, 27 December). Sylvia Pankhurst was indeed “an incredibly interesting and unusual person”. It is also worth mentioning, among much else, that her “left communism” was ultra-democratic, if not very practical (see her A Constitution for Br