Elizabeth Bowyer

Posted on August 22 2025

PHANZA may be interested in the events and exhibition taking place at the National Library for Mana Māori Motuhake: Māori rights and representation. Three landmark anniversaries in the political history of Aotearoa are commemorated in 2025: 50 years since the Māori Land March, the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal, and the Māori electoral roll option. A special series of free

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Posted on August 16 2025

At the AGM  on 25 September, members will elect a new committee to lead PHANZA over the next year. The committee – comprised of the president, secretary, and treasurer and up to six other members – supports our membership by developing resources and opportunities, coordinating PHANZA publications, and championing the importance of history, historians, and historical institutions. To be effective

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Posted on August 16 2025

The PHANZA AGM is on Thursday 25 September 2025 at 5.30 pm.Rutherford HouseRoom RH102Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington33 Bunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington 6011 or Zoom. Afterwards, please join us for the annual PHANZA AGM lecture delivered by Dr Emma-Jean Kelly! ‘Stroppy Feminists: Lessons of an Oral Historian in Interesting Times’. Dr Emma-Jean Kelly was until recently Senior Audio Visual

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Posted on August 16 2025

Letters Out Loud 2025Saturday 18 October 2025 National Library70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6011, New Zealand An evening of historical texts brought to life by famous voices. Tickets to this gala fundraising event include a souvenir programme and refreshments.   Speakers include Ngahiwi Apanui Barr, Una Cruickshank, Tanea Heke, Michele Leggott, David O’Donnell, Karen O’Leary, Trevor Richards, Vaughan Slinn, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, This will be an evening

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Posted on August 16 2025

PHANZA members can read the article here.

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Posted on August 8 2025

The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 10 September, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom Register here Mikayla Journée, Harold and Grace Marsh: An early twentieth-century photographer, a husband-wife partnership, and the not-so-subtle task of reframing Grace’s role behind the camera Claire Macindoe, Woman’s Hour: Taking radio from masculine source of experimentation to feminine tool of domesticity Mikayla Journée‘s

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Posted on August 7 2025

A lecture series about the ongoing mahi of the Waitangi Tribunal. Nau mai, haere mai, Te Waka Huia Wellington Museum is proud to present the Te Waka Huia Wellington Museum Legal Series, an informative lecture series about the purpose, historical significance and ongoing mahi of The Waitangi Tribunal.   Held alongside the exhibition He Kura Toi Tangata: 50 Years of the Waitangi Tribunal, 1975-2025, our special guest speakers will explore the Tribunal’s legal

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Posted on August 6 2025

Phoebe H. Li, Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants, 1860s–1970s, Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, Wellington, 2024. 229 pp. $75. ISBN 9780473699987. Reviewed by Sophie Loy-Wilson, University of Sydney. “In October 2022, Selwyn Doo, the descendant of an established New Zealand Chinese merchant family, contacted historian Phoebe H. Li to relay his families’ memories of Auckland’s Chinatown, stories passed down

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Posted on August 6 2025

Whare Wānanga, Level 2, Central City Library, 44 Lorne Street, Auckland City Centre, AucklandSaturday 16 August 20252pm-3pm Cantonese merchants facilitated early Chinese immigration to New Zealand, and their social and business networks laid the foundation of the Chinese community in the South Pacific. This talk begins with revisiting New Zealand Chinese history from the Otago gold fields to frontier towns

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Posted on August 6 2025

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 5:30pm to 6:30pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street. Delving into the Futuna Chapel Trust archive, the Scott family archive and the newly established and digitised John Scott Drawing Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Nick Bevin will explore and reveal the extent and significance of the work of

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Posted on August 6 2025

Explore Aotearoa’s rich history of botanical art with the authors of two stunning coffee-table art books from Te Papa Press, PHANZA member Catherine Field-Dodgson & Rebecca Rice. FLORA: Celebrating Our Botanical World mines Te Papa’s collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint. Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris brings to light one of New

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Posted on July 25 2025

Wednesday 3 September 2025, 5:30pm to 6:30pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street or on Zoom. In this month’s Friends of the Turnbull event, author and lecturer Annabel Cooper will talk about researching New Zealand filmmaker Rudall Hayward, best known for his silent films but also his later feature films ‘Rewi’s Last Stand’

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Posted on July 24 2025

Ruth Greenaway (a PHANZA member) is looking for a historian who has researched New Zealand’s contribution to the J-FORCE. She is making a podcast based on an oral history interview with someone who was a chaplain in the NZ J-FORCE contingent and visited Hiroshima in 1946. She would like to interview a historian as part of the podcast in September/

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Posted on July 22 2025

Tue, 5 Aug, 1pm – 4pm NZSTAdd to calendar Te Aro Room, Level 1, Black & Gold Harbourside Event Centre, 4 Taranaki Street, Wellington, Aotearoa Dr. Hillary Janet Serena Stace 19.02.1954 – 03.07.2025 Join Hilary’s family and friends for a gathering of reminiscences and celebration of Hilary’s life. Hilary was a tireless supporter of many, many people, a devoted partner

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Posted on July 21 2025

Parnell Heritage Inc. invites you to an Evening at the Parnell LibraryJubilee Building, 545 Parnell Road, Parnell, on Thursday 31st July 2025 from 6.00pm to 7.30pm Come and enjoy an evening at Parnell Library when Allan Matson, renowned heritage architect, will speak about the challenges facing our beautiful heritage buildings here in Parnell. Also, he will respond to your questions

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