A portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked 3. 5 years researching, finding all the objects and teach myself this history. For this exhibition we have , about 124 objects, of which there are 63 portraits. In curating the exhibition i was , hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. And ask, what does that do and what does that not do . And why 1965, the Voting Rights act is considered a mother a , part two of the 19th amendment. If you will follow me, i will take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets go. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative. I also wanted to include pieces of art, like the one we are looking at. It is titled the warfare at home and it is by a female artist. Lily martin spencer. She was active in the 18
Abolitionists and temp rest movements. This is the first of a twopart program. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Im Kate Clarke Lemay and im the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked about 3 1 2 years researching, teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In the exhibition we have about 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and in curating the exhibition, i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it and ask what does it do and what does it not do and why 1965 and the Voting Rights act is considered another sort of part two of the 19th amendment. So if youll follow me, im going to take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. Lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exhibition and i
But, amid all the excitement among political journalists, some viewers felt there wasnt enough basic explanation of what exactly had been agreed to. Heres what one caller, steve, had to say. Every bit of talk is about Northern Ireland. I would really love to know what the rest of the deal actually involves, how the relationship with europe will be after this deal has been concluded. It would be really nice notjust to constantly hear about dup and irish backstop. What is the deal . Be lovely to know. 0k, just some feedback. Thank you. Well, bbc news has certainly made attempts since then to explain exactly what is in the agreement particularly online but the detail may have been drowned out by the rhetoric of those applauding or decrying the deal. And there was some literal drowning out on wednesday, when the news channel was again broadcasting live from College Green outside the houses of parliament. Replacing eu systems. Shouting drowns out speech. So that remains to be seen how well
That the frequent appearances of a placard waver from the other side of the argument are encouraged by those live broadcasts from college green. Heres the activist in question, steve bray, doing the dance of the camera shot behind huw edwards and Laura Kuenssberg a couple weeks ago. And borisjohnson still says he wants to have a general election, but at this moment, the opposition parties arent going to back that. And when it comes to the big quagmire theyre all in politically how we sort out the brexit mess well, it doesnt necessarily change that much immediately either. Laura, well talk a little bit more about that later on but thanks very much for that. Laura kuenssberg there, our political editor, with more analysis a little later. Julian punch emailed us after watching that. And chris bolton also wondered. We asked bbc news for a response to this complaint, and they told us. On thursday, the action was very much not in westminster but in brussels. Huw edwards was dispatched to the
Police and protesters, after the jailing of catalan separatist leaders. Its a huge weekend for the home nations at the rugby world cup. England face their arch rivals australia in the First Quarter final this morning before ireland take on the defending champions the all blacks. Wales play france tomorrow. Another changeable day in the way today, worth taking your trolley. Still some showers in the forecast but gradually through the weekend, fewer and fewer showers. Brolly. Its saturday the 19th october. Our top story. Its a momentous day at westminster, as mps vote on borisjohnsons new brexit deal. Parliament is sitting on a saturday for the First Time Since the invasion of the falklands in 1982. Lets take you through what will happen today. The Prime Minister will present his agreement to mps at 0930, theyll debate the details annd then will start voting on it this afternoon. The result is too close to call between now and then, borisjohnson still has persuade but enough mps to back