Tag: history
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Barbara Brookes: Women’s Suffrage and Citizenship
Professor Barbara Brookes discussed the campaign for women’s suffrage and how activists imagined suffrage as a beginning, rather than an end. She said that although the women who signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition and voted in the 1893 election hoped that they could have an influence on the shape of their society, men subsequently failed to…
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Ryan Bodman: Rugby League in New Zealand
The history of rugby league in New Zealand began as a humble story of working-class communities and a popular ball game that felt like “being part of a large family”. Always a minority sport alongside rugby, it put down strong roots and flourished throughout the regional heartlands, before emerging into the mainstream in the 1980s.
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Jeffrey Sissons: The Forgotten Prophet and the Taranaki Iconoclasm
Jeffrey Sissons will revisit material from his book The Forgotten Prophet and present a new understanding of the politically significant yet overlooked Taranaki iconoclasm