What Really Happened: Votes for Women

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What Really Happened: Votes for Women

2012

1h 12m

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Documentary

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Overview

It's 1892 and Kate Sheppard tells the story of the suffrage campaign - a pursuit that will continue until September 1893.

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Sara Wiseman

Kate Sheppard

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Craig Hall

William Smith

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