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Posted on May 29 2023
The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 28 June, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Miranda Johnson, Unsettling Colonialism: Historians, Moral Conscience, and the Nation Katie Cooper, The sphere of women? Gender and the kitchen in rural New Zealand to 1940 Miranda Johnson is associate professor of History at the University of Otago, where she teaches
Posted on May 25 2023
15-16 September 2023, University of Auckland Long ago, the rhetoric of the colonial civilising mission had established colonial modernity as a referencepoint. Ensured in the privileging of Western ideas over the indigenous was the continuity of colonialismeven after formal imperial systems had vanished. Thus, came decolonisation as a long process where acumbersome hybrid of colonial legacies and post-colonial aspirations led
Posted on May 16 2023
The net meeting of the Family History Network is Thursday 25th May at 12pm Zoom link: https://massey.zoom.us/j/82807723929 This month, there will be an informal discussion, so please come ready to discuss things like: June Meeting Next month’s meeting on June 15th, the speaker will be Andrew May from University of Melbourne who will speak on the research behind his Genealogy journal article ‘The
Posted on May 15 2023
Wednesday 7 June 2023, 12:10pm to 1pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street or on Zoom. To commemorate the centenary of Katherine Mansfield’s death and celebrate her ongoing creative legacy, Cherie Jacobson, Director of Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, will interview Redmer Yska about his new book, ‘Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station’.
Posted on May 15 2023
The New Zealand Historical Association currently offers four prizes, each awarded biennially. These prizes will next be awarded at the NZHA Conference Dinner on 23 November 2023, Prizes for Published Books and Articles The three prizes offered for published works are: The NZHA Executive now calls for nominations for these three prizes. To be eligible, books or journal articles must
Posted on May 15 2023
The annual New Historians Conference, organised and hosted by Te Herenga Waka’s postgraduate History students is now extending a call for papers.12 May 2023 Historians in Social Movements Historians have always been involved in any great movement for change. Whether the cause has been for women’s liberation, queer rights, freedom from colonisation and racial oppression, or in the union movement,
Posted on May 11 2023
The Contestable Fund was established in 2019 to be used to support members travelling to conferences and for research, and later in the wake of Covid-19, for fees associated with attending online conferences. If you have fees for travel to research outside your region, or for attending an event online or in person such as a conference, these can be
Posted on May 11 2023
‘JOS, the forgotten photographer who saved a town’ is the story of an expatriate Czech gold miner, Joseph Divis, who arrived in New Zealand in 1909. He earned extra money with his camera, and over the next 25 years made a unique photographic record of life in mining towns. Waiuta, where he spent many years is now deserted, but owes
Posted on May 9 2023
Wednesday 17 May 2023, 12:10pm to 1:30pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street or on Zoom. Join for an enthralling talk by Professor Bain Attwood, author of ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History’. A ground-breaking historian In 1972 a remarkable Pākehā woman, Ruth Ross,
Posted on May 9 2023
Monday 15 May 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street or on Zoom. Join author Dr Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa) in this Public History Talk about the astonishing kōrero of Te Motunui Epa. After 150 years hidden in a swamp, the carved panels travelled across the world and changed
Posted on May 9 2023
In this article titled “National Library – adapting for the future” Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library Chris Szekely gives updates about the new link bridge currently under construction, the co-design elements and the changes to National Library services. As well as a section on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by Archives, National Library and Ngā Taonga, which demonstrates
Posted on May 4 2023
‘Inundated’: floods, history and high water An oration by Dr Margaret Cook Thursday 8 June 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (AEST) 7.30pm-9pm (NZST) FREE OnlineRegister your interest now: https://phavic.wildapricot.org/event-5115089 At the second annual Wilson History Oration, eminent environmental historian Dr Margaret Cook will explore the ways historians can engage with the public, the media, other professions, and policy makers. In discussing her work on floods, she
Posted on May 3 2023
Explore the lesser-known aspects of Canterbury’s Second World War Home Front story at two upcoming talks at the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum. These talks coincide with an exhibition about the Westerfield Military Camp set up in Hakatere Ashburton in 1942 amidst the fear of attack or invasion of Aotearoa New Zealand. Stories from the Canterbury Home Front during WWII
Posted on May 2 2023
Thursday 11 May 2023, 5:30pm to 6:30pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street and on Zoom. A scandalous society trial In May 1920 New Zealanders received the shocking news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of Whanganui, Charles Mackay, had shot a young gay poet, D’Arcy Cresswell. A riveting trial followed where it was
Posted on April 26 2023
Wednesday 3 May 2023, 12:10pm to 1pm Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street. or on Zoom What can popular music tell us about a country and its culture? As the 2023 Lilburn Research Fellow, Nick Bollinger is looking at ways in which pop music in Aotearoa New Zealand has reflected, contradicted, and contributed
Posted on April 20 2023
Wednesday 26 April 2023, 10am to 12pm Programme Rooms, Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon, WellingtonFree. Booking required. In this Anzac-themed event, reflect on first-hand accounts from World War I, and weave together your own stories of this momentous period in Aotearoa’s history. World War I: The individual and the moment Hear curator Peter