Books and Beyond: Suffrage Day's 125th anniversary

To celebrate Suffrage Day on 19 September, Renée Orr from Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections talks about a selection of historical material illustrating wāhine taking action in Aotearoa, from the suffrage petitions of the 1890s to the feminist magazine Broadsheet from the 1980s.

Listen to this Books and Beyond episode on the Auckland Libraries podcast and read on for links to the items and people discussed in the show.

Suffrage 125 and the petition

• Suffrage 125 and celebrations
• Suffrage petition on New Zealand History
• Suffrage petition, sheet 394 

Amey Daldy's letter to Sir George Grey

Amey Daldy. Letter to Sir George Grey, 20 September 1893. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, GLNZ D1.1.

• Amey Daldy's biography on Te Ara
• Amey Daldy's letter to Sir George Grey

Ellen Melville's election poster

Electors of Grey Lynn. 1919. From: Ellen Melville. Election scrapbooks.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, NZMS 1569. 

• Ellen Melville's biography on Te Ara

Auckland Women’s Health Centre poster

Women help - we’re broke! 1980s. 
From: Auckland Women’s Centre Records.Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, NZMS 999

• From the Auckland Women's Centre archive collection.

Broadsheet magazine

• October 1982 issue featuring a Gil Hanly photograph of Donna Awatere and Ripeka Evans from the Broadsheet collection archive collection.
• Digitised version of the magazine, via the University of Auckland
• Gil Hanly photographs - Auckland Art Gallery and Auckland Museum

Wāhine Take Action

• Read more about the exhibition on Heritage et AL blog

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

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