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Posted on April 11 2023
PHANZA members are invited to attend one of three presentations and discussions on the National Library’s new draft Removal and Disposal Policy. The presentations will take place on: Friday April 21, 10am – 11am Wednesday April 26, 5.30pm – 6.30pm Friday April 28, 28, 12.30pm – 1.30pm All three presentations will be the same. If you would like to attend
Posted on January 13 2023
Applications for the 2023-2024 Collaborative Newspaper Programme will be open Tuesday 7th of February 2023. This is a programme that the National Library runs every year to invite community groups and heritage organisations to collaborate with us to add more newspapers to Papers Past. The 2023-24 programme is limited to 40,000 pages due to existing commitments. The National Library will split
Posted on November 14 2022
We are delighted to share that the fourth – but not the final – New Zealand Journal of Public History article for the 2022 issue is now available to read on the PHANZA website. Emma-Jean Kelly’s ‘The Disappearance of James O’Grady: Mental Health in Aotearoa in the Early Twentieth Century’ can also be found here. Emma-Jean Kelly is the Senior
Posted on October 25 2022
About this event ‘Votes for Women’ was not the only issue being discussed by Canterbury’s feminists of the 1890s. Should women cycle and if so what should they wear, were also topics of debate. Some women were brave enough to abandon their corsets and even wear knickerbocker costumes as they enjoyed the freedom that cycling and this new style of
Posted on August 2 2022
2023 Judith Binney Fellowship and Writing Awards Applications are open Applications close 26 August 2022 This is a friendly reminder that applications for the 2023 Judith Binney Fellowship and Writing Awards close in four weeks’ time, at 5pm Friday 26 August 2022.The purpose of the Judith Binney Trust is to support rigorous and imaginative scholarship of the kind that characterised Judith Binney’s
Posted on August 2 2022
In the context of the pandemic and the immediate period that follows, there is a requirementto take a pause and understand the change, recalibrate, and prepare for what comes next. Atthe same time there are some things that remain constant, continuities that run strongthrough the before and after. The New Historians Conference 2022 is focused on the idea of change
Posted on July 28 2022
Earlier this month Lucy Mackintosh was highly commended in the inaugural Public Environmental History Prize of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network. The judges citation can be read below: Deep Histories of AucklandLucy Mackintosh’s important book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland researches the deep history of three sites in present-day Auckland, linking history with archaeology. She demonstrates
Posted on July 26 2022
The Department of Internal Affairs is seeking candidates to be a general member of the Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC). LIAC advises the Minister of Internal Affairs, as the responsible Minister for the National Library of New Zealand, on: library and information issues, including mātauranga Māori, and access to library and information services; the role of library and
Posted on July 26 2022
The Department of Internal Affairs is seeking candidates to be a general member of the Guardians Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library (Guardians Kaitiaki). Guardians Kaitiaki advise the Minister Responsible for the National Library on key matters relating to the operation of the Alexander Turnbull Library, including: the capacity of the Library to acquire documents to be used for
Posted on July 26 2022
Recently, a very successful online symposium was run by the Canterbury Museum to mark the 200th birthday of Julius von Haast, one of New Zealand’s leading 19th century geoscientists. The online conference took place from 30 April and 1 May 2022 and included speakers from New Zealand and Vienna. The presentations from the conference can now be viewed here, including a virtual
Posted on July 14 2022
Julia Bradshaw attended on behalf of PHANZA a workshop meeting between users and Archives New Zealand regarding their new collections search, 30 June 2022. The meeting confirmed that improving the advanced search facility should be a top priority for Archives New Zealand. A detailed report from Julia on the meeting can be found here.
Posted on July 8 2022
The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 27 July, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Sam Iti Prendergast, Dreaming Sovereign Futures in Aotearoa and Hawai’i: Rihi Puhiwahine and Haunani-Kay Trask Sam Iti Prendergast (Ngāti Maniapoto) is lecturer in history at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. Her work examines the tensions between the aspirations of white
Posted on June 30 2022
The Pacific History Association (PHA) Webinar Series, July – November 2022 is being coordinated by Helen Gardner and Jacqui Leckie. Further details will be announced closer to the dates, including Zoom details. All are most welcome to join. Please check the PHA Facebook page for updates. More information on the 7 July Webinar can be found here. Enquiries to jacqui.leckie@otago.ac.nz Provisional
Posted on June 18 2022
PHANZA member Philippa Werry has won first runner up for The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa’s Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2022. The judges said that Philippa Werry’s manuscript Iris and Me “is a strikingly original story in epic poem form.’” Philippa Werry is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays. Her interest in history has produced titles such
Posted on June 18 2022
With the Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum approaching, earlier this week PHANZA members Liz Ward and Margaret Tennant were involved in showcasing local history and heritage resources to teachers at Ka Mua Ka Muri in Pāmutana. Hosted by the Palmerston North City Library, Ka Mua Ka Muri (meaning walking backwards into the future) saw heritage groups and historians offer resources
Posted on June 15 2022
PHANZA member Karin Speedy has a new book out this week. In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and space as she navigatesintersecting personal, local, family and global histories, stories that help her reckon with who she is andwhere she stands in this complicated (post)colonial world. If colonialism, slavery, violence and heartbreakfeature heavily in her