This Suffrage Day, September 19, we remember Kate Sheppard as a heroine of the movement. But we should also remember others who paved the way, even if they don’t have a banknote to their name.
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Tyne and Wear
For millions of readers around the world, the image of the country between the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear was woven by Catherine Cookson, the region’s most prolific and popular author. Cookson’s was a landscape of collieries, shipyards, rumbling coal trains, sooty-faced kids and the instantly nostalgic tones of pithead silver bands playing Haydn. While fragments of her world remain – mainly in the doughty cheerfulness of the locals – over the past four decades, as heavy industry has receded, a more distant past has emerged.
Twelve centuries before Dame Catherine began her career, the north-east’s first great literary figure, the Venerable Bede, was busy writing the histories that would help forge an English identity. Saint Bede (whose story is brought to life at the excellent Jarrow Hall Anglo-Saxon Village) divided his time between the twin monasteries of Saint Paul’s in Jarrow and Saint Peter’s in Monk
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Queenstown s adult industry struggling without tourists
2 Jan, 2021 02:41 AM
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The absence of wealthy overseas tourists has taken a toll on the adult entertainment industry in Queenstown. File photo / Michael Armadeus, Unsplash
The absence of wealthy overseas tourists has taken a toll on the adult entertainment industry in Queenstown. File photo / Michael Armadeus, Unsplash
Otago Daily Times
By: Matthew Mckew
The absence of wealthy overseas tourists has taken a toll on the adult entertainment industry in Queenstown, as New Zealanders are less willing to spend big.
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