The 'epicentre of women's suffrage' — Kate Sheppard's Christchurch home finally opens as a public museum
- Written by Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury
CC BY-SAKate Sheppard was around 40 in 1888, the year she and her family moved into the brand-new wooden villa at 83 Clyde Road, Ilam. Now part of inner Christchurch, it was then a rural section some five kilometres from the city centre.
Today, 132 years later, what is now known as Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House will be opened by Prime...
