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Women's Suffrage

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Women’s suffrage
This Inquiry Exemplar is a curated set of quality resources designed to inspire and support approaches to teaching through inquiry.
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Suffrage 125
Suffrage 125
The Suffrage 125 Whakatu Wahine logo.
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Women's suffrage plaque
Women's suffrage plaque
A living memorial to the first 100 years of womens suffrage 1893-1993.
images
Women's suffrage stamp
Women's suffrage stamp
As well as appearing on out $10 note, women's suffragist Kate Sheppard features in The A to Z of New Zealand stamp series produced by New Zealand Post in 2008.
sets
Womens suffrage
Womens suffrage
sets
NZ women and their bicycles
NZ women and their bicycles
Ladies of Aotearoa, enjoying the freedom and delight of two wheels since ages ago.
video
Bread & Roses
Bread & Roses
Made to mark 100 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand, Bread & Rosestells the story of the pioneering trade unionist, politician and feminist Sonja Davies.
video
What really happened – votes for women
What really happened – votes for women
This fly on the wall docudrama reimagines Kate Sheppard‘s final campaign to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
sets
Suffragists
Suffragists
A collection of images used on Te Ara and NZ History about women's suffrage.
images
Petition for women's suffrage
Petition for women's suffrage
Petitions had an important role in 19thcentury politics, particularly for women who could not use the vote to express their views.
images
Women's Suffrage Centennial, 1993
Women's Suffrage Centennial, 1993
‘Summits for Suffrage’ walkers at peak of Mount Climie.
audio
Sound archives: suffrage day
Sound archives: suffrage day
National prohibition of alcohol and rowdiness at the polling booths were some of the predictions about what would happen once New Zealand women got the vote for the first time in 1893.
other
Twitter archive for Women's March #womensmarch
This file contains a data set of 38606 tweets tagged with #womensmarch (case not sensitive) that were published on Twitter between 21/01/2017 20:45:23 and 22/01/2017 08:16:53 GMT
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Women’s march
Women’s march
Digital cartoon by Mark Winter on women’s political and social protest.
images
Suffrage petition
Suffrage petition
The 1893 women’s suffrage petition.
images
National Council of Women
National Council of Women
On 13 April 1896, the National Council of Women was inaugurated in Christchurch. The first president of the council was Kate Sheppard.
video
Standing in the sunshine
Standing in the sunshine
Four-part series Standing in the Sunshinecharted the journey of Kiwi women over a century from September 1893.
articles
New Zealand's first woman MP elected
The Labour Party’s Elizabeth McCombs became New Zealand’s first woman Member of Parliament.
audio
50 years of women's liberation in NZ
50 years of women's liberation in NZ
Deb Nation explores the archives to celebrate the Women's Conventions which radicalised country ladies, rape victims and feminist separatists alike, 50 years ago.
newspapers
Female suffrage
images
The summit
The summit
The summit at last, a suffrage cartoon.
images
Young English suffragist
Young English suffragist
Young English suffragette arrested by two policemen.
images
Suffragettes in London
Suffragettes in London
A large protest march by suffragettes in London.
images
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Showing a young woman and cherub heralding the promises that women's suffrage brings for women and children in future years, as jaded masculinity fades away in the background. Auckland Region (N.Z.)
images
New Plymouth suffrage group
New Plymouth suffrage group
In 1993, women throughout New Zealand celebrated the centennial of women's suffrage in New Zealand. Funded by the Government, Women's Suffrage, Whakatu Wahine 1893 - 1993 organised a network of gro...
newspapers
Our woman suffrage
Article on women suffrage and the ‘weaker’ sex.
images
How far we've come
How far we've come
New Zealand suffrage cartoon by Sharon Murdoch.
articles
Voting rights
On 19 September 1893, when the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant the right to vote to all adult ...
images
Voting rights cartoon
Voting rights cartoon
Digital cartoon by Chicane on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Title from file name Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
images
Women voting
Women voting
Original caption reads: "Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa". Shows a horse drawn carriage, and an unidentified group of men and women standing by the entrance to a building. Taken in 189...
images
Sisterhood special
Sisterhood special
Shows the Queen sitting at a table wearing a birthday party hat. She has a stamp in one hand, with ``93 Sisterhood special' on it, which she has stamped on the New Zealand Honours list'. Refers t...
images
The Summit at last
The Summit at last
An engraving from The New Zealand Graphic, Saturday, 21 July, 1894, depicting a woman holding a flag which reads: Perfect Political Equality. A man is helping her up to what is labelled as the Parl...
images
Eight vignettes of role reversals
Eight vignettes of role reversals
Eight vignettes of role reversals. Exhibited in 'Harpies & Heroines: A cartoon history of the changing roles of women in New Zealand' Exhibition curated by Rachel Macfarlane and Cerridwyn Young of...
newspapers
Women’s suffrage
Women’s suffrage
images
Pay equity cartoon
Pay equity cartoon
Under the heading 'She's got your number', shows a billboard featuring the New Zealand ten dollar note with the startled face of Kate Sheppard. John Key and another figure are using red paint to re...
images
Women in the archives
A series of historical images depicting New Zealand women.
articles
A biography of Jenny Shipley
New Zealand’s first woman PM came to power in 1997 after staging a carefully planned coup against Jim Bolger.
articles
A biography of Helen Clark
Jenny Shipley may have been our first female PM, but Helen Clark was the first elected one.
articles
The long road from a house to the house
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
articles
Women's suffrage
This site provides historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.
articles
Women’s suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
articles
International Women’s Day
A blog post paying homage to New Zealand women who have sought to create change through their work.
articles
Women celebrate 125 years of suffrage
Hundreds of New Zealand women clad in purple and white crammed into Government House's ballroom today to mark 125 years of women's suffrage.
newspapers
Women’s suffrage
Countries in 1917 that had women’s suffrage.
articles
Suffrage : 125 events and celebrations
2018 events and celebrations that recognise women getting the vote in New Zealand.
articles
Saudi Arabia women
Saudi Arabia's women vote in an election for the first time.
articles
Votes for women
Pardoning suffragettes 'complicated'.
articles
Women's suffrage source of pride
Of the total 31,872 suffrage petition signatories, just 21 men are known to have signed.
images
Women's suffrage movement
A Pinterest suffrage images board.
websites
WWW
Woman suffrage memorabilia
A site devoted to suffrage artefacts such as buttons, postcards, ribbons, sheet music, and ceramics.
articles
New Zealand suffrage history
It was an enormous struggle for New Zealand suffragists led by Kate Sheppard to get the vote.
articles
Women's suffrage in the UK
Latest articles about women's suffrage in the UK.
articles
Universal suffrage hits New Zealand
It was September 19, 1893, a day that would go down in history.
articles
NZ women's historic vote a chance to identify next changes
Minister for Women, Julie Anne Genter is calling on women across the country to celebrate the 125th anniversary of New Zealand women getting the vote.
images
12 cruel anti-suffragette cartoons
Throughout history, there were people who did not want women to vote.
articles
Women, the vote and activism
The Suffrage 125 celebration is an opportunity to remember the suffragists and what they fought for and reflect on women’s rights today.
articles
Switzerland's long way
Switzerland and women's right to vote.
articles
British women's suffrage
New coin to mark 100 years of voting.
articles
Kate Sheppard was a suffrage pioneer
Kate Sheppard was the driving force behind New Zealand's women's suffrage movement.
video
What is women's suffrage?
A video explaining the legal right for women to vote in elections.
articles
The Kate Sheppard memorial
The Kate Sheppard Memorial was unveiled on 19 September 1993, by the Governor General, Dame Catherine Tizard.
articles
The British women's suffrage movement
In the nineteenth century, women had no place in national politics.
articles
Non! Nein! No!
A country that wouldn’t let women vote till 1971.
articles
American suffragists
A notice about the first ever convention called to discuss the civil and political rights of women, in 1848.
articles
Karen Walker pays homage to suffragettes
Karen Walker is intrigued by the way suffragettes used their clothing as placards to fight for the vote both here and overseas.
articles
That Bloody Woman
A musical showing a side of Kate Sheppard you've never seen.
video
Bad romance
A song about women’s suffrage inspired by Alice Paul.
articles
Art and the suffrage movement
How women championed their cause through art.
images
Suffrage colouring image album
Album of suffrage colouring-in images.
articles
Opposition to suffrage
Opposing votes for women may seem surprising today, but anti-suffrage views dominated among men and women through the early twentieth century.
images
Suffragette London
Images of London suffragette campaigners and the suffragette movement.
articles
Women’s suffrage petition
In 1893 Aotearoa/New Zealand became the first country in the world in which all women gained the right to vote in general elections.
articles
Militant suffragettes: morally justified or just terrorists?
Between 1912 and 1914, a group of British suffragettes called the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)launched a campaign of militant action.
other
‘Votes for women’ teaching resource
The Electoral Commission makes the connection between the suffragists’ achievement in 1893, and voter engagement and participation today.
articles
Suffrage in Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, women’s suffrage is a recent event.
articles
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote.
articles
New Zealanders and the British suffrage movement
Find out how New Zealand citizens contributed to the suffrage movement in Britain.
video
The death of Emily Davison
A video about the death of suffragette, Emily Davison.
articles
Art responds to women's suffrage
The battle for suffrage attracted women who were unconventional and boldly challenging the status quo.
audio
Mrs Perryman
Interview with Mrs Perryman, suffrage campaigner and editor of the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union newspaper.
articles
Women’s suffrage in America
However, not until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919 did women throughout the nation gain the right to vote.
articles
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was the leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand.
audio
Voters of 1893
Three elderly women living in Auckland are interviewed about casting their first vote in the general election on November 28, 1893.
articles
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia : leader among women in Aotearoa New Zealand
In the year 1897 Māori women achieved the right to vote and to stand as members in the Kotahitanga parliament, thanks to Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia.
articles
The F-word
Backgrounds the 'Suffragette' movie by UK director Sarah Gavron about the women's movement for the right to vote in the UK in the early 1900s.
articles
A biography of Helen Clark
Jenny Shipley may have been our first female PM, but Helen Clark was the first elected one.
articles
A biography of Jenny Shipley
New Zealand’s first woman PM came to power in 1997 after staging a carefully planned coup against Jim Bolger.
articles
American suffragists
A notice about the first ever convention called to discuss the civil and political rights of women, in 1848.
articles
Art and the suffrage movement
How women championed their cause through art.
articles
Art responds to women's suffrage
The battle for suffrage attracted women who were unconventional and boldly challenging the status quo.
articles
British women's suffrage
New coin to mark 100 years of voting.
articles
International Women’s Day
A blog post paying homage to New Zealand women who have sought to create change through their work.
articles
Karen Walker pays homage to suffragettes
Karen Walker is intrigued by the way suffragettes used their clothing as placards to fight for the vote both here and overseas.
articles
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote.
articles
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was the leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand.
articles
Kate Sheppard was a suffrage pioneer
Kate Sheppard was the driving force behind New Zealand's women's suffrage movement.
articles
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia : leader among women in Aotearoa New Zealand
In the year 1897 Māori women achieved the right to vote and to stand as members in the Kotahitanga parliament, thanks to Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia.
articles
Militant suffragettes: morally justified or just terrorists?
Between 1912 and 1914, a group of British suffragettes called the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)launched a campaign of militant action.
articles
NZ women's historic vote a chance to identify next changes
Minister for Women, Julie Anne Genter is calling on women across the country to celebrate the 125th anniversary of New Zealand women getting the vote.
articles
New Zealand suffrage history
It was an enormous struggle for New Zealand suffragists led by Kate Sheppard to get the vote.
articles
New Zealand's first woman MP elected
The Labour Party’s Elizabeth McCombs became New Zealand’s first woman Member of Parliament.
articles
New Zealanders and the British suffrage movement
Find out how New Zealand citizens contributed to the suffrage movement in Britain.
articles
Non! Nein! No!
A country that wouldn’t let women vote till 1971.
articles
Opposition to suffrage
Opposing votes for women may seem surprising today, but anti-suffrage views dominated among men and women through the early twentieth century.
articles
Saudi Arabia women
Saudi Arabia's women vote in an election for the first time.
articles
Suffrage : 125 events and celebrations
2018 events and celebrations that recognise women getting the vote in New Zealand.
articles
Suffrage in Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, women’s suffrage is a recent event.
articles
Switzerland's long way
Switzerland and women's right to vote.
articles
That Bloody Woman
A musical showing a side of Kate Sheppard you've never seen.
articles
The British women's suffrage movement
In the nineteenth century, women had no place in national politics.
articles
The F-word
Backgrounds the 'Suffragette' movie by UK director Sarah Gavron about the women's movement for the right to vote in the UK in the early 1900s.
articles
The Kate Sheppard memorial
The Kate Sheppard Memorial was unveiled on 19 September 1993, by the Governor General, Dame Catherine Tizard.
articles
The long road from a house to the house
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
articles
Universal suffrage hits New Zealand
It was September 19, 1893, a day that would go down in history.
articles
Votes for women
Pardoning suffragettes 'complicated'.
articles
Voting rights
On 19 September 1893, when the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant the right to vote to all adult ...
articles
Women celebrate 125 years of suffrage
Hundreds of New Zealand women clad in purple and white crammed into Government House's ballroom today to mark 125 years of women's suffrage.
articles
Women's suffrage
This site provides historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.
articles
Women's suffrage in the UK
Latest articles about women's suffrage in the UK.
articles
Women's suffrage source of pride
Of the total 31,872 suffrage petition signatories, just 21 men are known to have signed.
articles
Women, the vote and activism
The Suffrage 125 celebration is an opportunity to remember the suffragists and what they fought for and reflect on women’s rights today.
articles
Women’s suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
articles
Women’s suffrage in America
However, not until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919 did women throughout the nation gain the right to vote.
articles
Women’s suffrage petition
In 1893 Aotearoa/New Zealand became the first country in the world in which all women gained the right to vote in general elections.
audio
50 years of women's liberation in NZ
50 years of women's liberation in NZ
Deb Nation explores the archives to celebrate the Women's Conventions which radicalised country ladies, rape victims and feminist separatists alike, 50 years ago.
audio
Mrs Perryman
Interview with Mrs Perryman, suffrage campaigner and editor of the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union newspaper.
audio
Sound archives: suffrage day
Sound archives: suffrage day
National prohibition of alcohol and rowdiness at the polling booths were some of the predictions about what would happen once New Zealand women got the vote for the first time in 1893.
audio
Voters of 1893
Three elderly women living in Auckland are interviewed about casting their first vote in the general election on November 28, 1893.
exemplar
Women’s suffrage
This Inquiry Exemplar is a curated set of quality resources designed to inspire and support approaches to teaching through inquiry.
images
12 cruel anti-suffragette cartoons
Throughout history, there were people who did not want women to vote.
images
Eight vignettes of role reversals
Eight vignettes of role reversals
Eight vignettes of role reversals. Exhibited in 'Harpies & Heroines: A cartoon history of the changing roles of women in New Zealand' Exhibition curated by Rachel Macfarlane and Cerridwyn Young of...
images
How far we've come
How far we've come
New Zealand suffrage cartoon by Sharon Murdoch.
images
National Council of Women
National Council of Women
On 13 April 1896, the National Council of Women was inaugurated in Christchurch. The first president of the council was Kate Sheppard.
images
New Plymouth suffrage group
New Plymouth suffrage group
In 1993, women throughout New Zealand celebrated the centennial of women's suffrage in New Zealand. Funded by the Government, Women's Suffrage, Whakatu Wahine 1893 - 1993 organised a network of gro...
images
Pay equity cartoon
Pay equity cartoon
Under the heading 'She's got your number', shows a billboard featuring the New Zealand ten dollar note with the startled face of Kate Sheppard. John Key and another figure are using red paint to re...
images
Petition for women's suffrage
Petition for women's suffrage
Petitions had an important role in 19thcentury politics, particularly for women who could not use the vote to express their views.
images
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Showing a young woman and cherub heralding the promises that women's suffrage brings for women and children in future years, as jaded masculinity fades away in the background. Auckland Region (N.Z.)
images
Sisterhood special
Sisterhood special
Shows the Queen sitting at a table wearing a birthday party hat. She has a stamp in one hand, with ``93 Sisterhood special' on it, which she has stamped on the New Zealand Honours list'. Refers t...
images
Suffrage 125
Suffrage 125
The Suffrage 125 Whakatu Wahine logo.
images
Suffrage colouring image album
Album of suffrage colouring-in images.
images
Suffrage petition
Suffrage petition
The 1893 women’s suffrage petition.
images
Suffragette London
Images of London suffragette campaigners and the suffragette movement.
images
Suffragettes in London
Suffragettes in London
A large protest march by suffragettes in London.
images
The Summit at last
The Summit at last
An engraving from The New Zealand Graphic, Saturday, 21 July, 1894, depicting a woman holding a flag which reads: Perfect Political Equality. A man is helping her up to what is labelled as the Parl...
images
The summit
The summit
The summit at last, a suffrage cartoon.
images
Voting rights cartoon
Voting rights cartoon
Digital cartoon by Chicane on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Title from file name Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
images
Women in the archives
A series of historical images depicting New Zealand women.
images
Women voting
Women voting
Original caption reads: "Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa". Shows a horse drawn carriage, and an unidentified group of men and women standing by the entrance to a building. Taken in 189...
images
Women's Suffrage Centennial, 1993
Women's Suffrage Centennial, 1993
‘Summits for Suffrage’ walkers at peak of Mount Climie.
images
Women's suffrage movement
A Pinterest suffrage images board.
images
Women's suffrage plaque
Women's suffrage plaque
A living memorial to the first 100 years of womens suffrage 1893-1993.
images
Women's suffrage stamp
Women's suffrage stamp
As well as appearing on out $10 note, women's suffragist Kate Sheppard features in The A to Z of New Zealand stamp series produced by New Zealand Post in 2008.
images
Women’s march
Women’s march
Digital cartoon by Mark Winter on women’s political and social protest.
images
Young English suffragist
Young English suffragist
Young English suffragette arrested by two policemen.
newspapers
Female suffrage
newspapers
Our woman suffrage
Article on women suffrage and the ‘weaker’ sex.
newspapers
Women’s suffrage
Women’s suffrage
newspapers
Women’s suffrage
Countries in 1917 that had women’s suffrage.
other
Twitter archive for Women's March #womensmarch
This file contains a data set of 38606 tweets tagged with #womensmarch (case not sensitive) that were published on Twitter between 21/01/2017 20:45:23 and 22/01/2017 08:16:53 GMT
other
‘Votes for women’ teaching resource
The Electoral Commission makes the connection between the suffragists’ achievement in 1893, and voter engagement and participation today.
sets
NZ women and their bicycles
NZ women and their bicycles
Ladies of Aotearoa, enjoying the freedom and delight of two wheels since ages ago.
sets
Suffragists
Suffragists
A collection of images used on Te Ara and NZ History about women's suffrage.
sets
Womens suffrage
Womens suffrage
video
Bad romance
A song about women’s suffrage inspired by Alice Paul.
video
Bread & Roses
Bread & Roses
Made to mark 100 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand, Bread & Rosestells the story of the pioneering trade unionist, politician and feminist Sonja Davies.
video
Standing in the sunshine
Standing in the sunshine
Four-part series Standing in the Sunshinecharted the journey of Kiwi women over a century from September 1893.
video
The death of Emily Davison
A video about the death of suffragette, Emily Davison.
video
What is women's suffrage?
A video explaining the legal right for women to vote in elections.
video
What really happened – votes for women
What really happened – votes for women
This fly on the wall docudrama reimagines Kate Sheppard‘s final campaign to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
websites
WWW
Woman suffrage memorabilia
A site devoted to suffrage artefacts such as buttons, postcards, ribbons, sheet music, and ceramics.

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