{"id":2857,"date":"2018-06-08T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/the-forum\/?post_type=tribe_events&amp;p=2857"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:02:30","slug":"voice-and-vote-women-and-parliament","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/event\/voice-and-vote-women-and-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice and Vote: Women and Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Voice and Vote: Women&#8217;s place in Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 27th June &#8211; Saturday 6th October<\/p>\n<p>09:00 &#8211; 17.30<\/p>\n<p>Westminster Hall, London<\/p>\n<p>100 years since women gained the partial vote, an interactive exhibition will be hosted in Westminster Hall telling the story of women in Parliament &#8211; the campaigning, the protests and the achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jacqui Turner, University of Reading History lecturer and Vote 100 adviser, and the University of Reading Special Collections are recreating Nancy Astor&#8217;s mailbag for the exhibition. Nancy Astor was the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat, and her letters of correspondence are stored in the University of Reading&#8217;s Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will also feature other rare and previously unseen historic objects, pictures and archives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission free.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information and to book your place visit:<\/strong> <strong>https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/get-involved\/vote-100\/voice-and-vote\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice and Vote: Women&#8217;s place in Parliament Wednesday 27th June &#8211; Saturday 6th October 09:00 &#8211; 17.30 Westminster Hall, London 100 years since women gained the partial vote, an interactive&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#45;&#98;&#108;&#111;&#103;&#47;&#101;&#118;&#101;&#110;&#116;&#47;&#118;&#111;&#105;&#99;&#101;&#45;&#97;&#110;&#100;&#45;&#118;&#111;&#116;&#101;&#45;&#119;&#111;&#109;&#101;&#110;&#45;&#97;&#110;&#100;&#45;&#112;&#97;&#114;&#108;&#105;&#97;&#109;&#101;&#110;&#116;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[971],"class_list":["post-2857","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-heritage-creativity","cat_heritage-creativity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voice and Vote: Women and Parliament - Connecting Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/event\/voice-and-vote-women-and-parliament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voice and Vote: Women and Parliament - Connecting Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Voice and Vote: Women&#8217;s place in Parliament Wednesday 27th June &#8211; 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