Marked Wellington

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Votes for women around the world

New Zealand gave all adult women the vote in 1893, after a petition led by Kate Sheppard. Women won it in many countries after the First World War, but not in Switzerland until 1971 or Saudi Arabia until 2015.

Place
Wellington · London · Washington · BernThe whole world
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IKate Sheppard’s petition
  2. IISuffragists and suffragettes in Britain
  3. IIIAfter the First World War
  4. IVWomen voting in India
  5. VThe last to give way

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Kate Sheppard
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Millicent Fawcett
  • Sophia Duleep Singh
  • Bertha Lutz

Objects

  • The 1893 petition
  • Suffragette sashes and badges

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1893 to 2015. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?