As part of South Australia’s History Festival there is an exciting FREE event that will interest MMS members… It promises to be a fascinating afternoon where Frances Bedford MP, Secretary of the Muriel Matters Society Inc., will talk not only about the significance of Muriel Matters but her own personal journey along the way. To… Continue reading SA History Festival Event – Consuming Passions: Why Muriel Matters

A map of suffrage activities in 1911 in the UK is still in development but gives a wonderful picture of the different type of activities deployed by British women to attain the vote. It paints a picture of a diverse movement spread out across the UK. Click here to access it: https://www.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/ Don’t forget our… Continue reading UK Suffragettes on the Map

Hello Members You are invited to attend the Final Performance on Sunday 17 March 2019 at 3.00pm followed by refreshments in the Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building. Please come along and see Elizabeth Webb Nicholls’ closing performance. There is still time to see this wonderful performance before it ends on Sunday 17 March 2019. Hope… Continue reading A Suffrage Soapbox – Last Performance (17/3)

It’s Fringe time in Adelaide! Anyone out and about knows that there is a certain buzz in the city this time of year. Creating some of this excitment is ‘A Soapbox for Democracy’ on North Terrace (held outside of the Institute Building) where you can listen to the views of South Australia’s most famous female activists. Mary Lee,… Continue reading Fringe Time!! A Soapbox for Democracy Continues…

The wonderful Clare Wright appeared recently on ABC Conversations with Hamish Macdonald to talk all things Muriel Matters and the suffrage movement more generally. Clare is known for re-inserting the role of women into Australia’s history, a project that has continued with the recent publication of You Daughters of Freedom through Text Publishing. The full… Continue reading ‘The Marvellous Miss Matters’ – Clare Wright on ABC Conversations (Listen)

What better way to kick off Fringe opening night than to gather round the soapbox to see a re-enactment of Mary Lee speak on North Terrace. Lee was the inaugural secretary of the Women’s Suffrage League and instrumental in helping women attain the vote in South Australia 125 years ago in 1894. Members are invited… Continue reading ‘A Suffrage Soapbox’ and Nibbles – MMS Event This Friday (15/2)!