Kia ora Margaret,
Greetings from Aotearoa New Zealand. We are gearing up to commemorate, in 2018, 125 years since we became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. In most other democracies – including Britain and the United States – women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War. New Zealand's world leadership in women's suffrage became a central part of our image as a trail-blazing 'social laboratory'.
See here for more information.
Many of our museums and galleries are working on ways to highlight the work that went into this movement, and the social change that universal suffrage enabled. There is a huge amount of information already on the internet.
If you would like to be connected to people and organisations here in
Aotearoa New Zealand please let me know.
Nga mihi,
Best wishes,
Phillipa
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Phillipa Tocker
Executive Director
Museum Aotearoa
Wellington
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-11-2017 10:15 AM
From: Margaret Koch
Subject: Suffrage anniversary
Hello everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone is currently working on a significant exhibition focused on the Suffrage movement.
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Margaret Koch
Interim Director
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin TX
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