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Auckland Writers Festival – Lucy Mackintosh to present the 2022 Michael King Lecture

Posted on June 23 2022

Lucy Mackintosh will present the 2022 Michael King Lecture at the upcoming Auckland Writers Festival on Saturday 27 August 2022 3.30pm-4.30pm. Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh – co-winner of the 2022 Ernest Scott Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards – is a landmark publication, a history of Auckland that takes as

Family History Network – 7 July 2022

Posted on June 22 2022

The next online meeting of the Family History Network on Thursday 7 July from 12-1pm. Zoom link: https://massey.zoom.us/j/88589262250 PHANZA member Helen Leggatt will present, followed by a group discussion. Helen’s presentation details are: Burning God’s Own: A Prosopographical Approach to the Early Adoption of Cremation in New Zealand (1874-1946) Historians and sociologists have long debated individual motivations underlying the transition from earth

Annual Friends of the Turnbull Library Founder Lecture: Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: Approaching our past with curiosity and courage

Posted on June 18 2022

The annual Friends of the Turnbull Library Founder Lecture will this year be given by Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO, Governor General of New Zealand. Date: Tuesday 28 June 2022, 6pm to 7pm Location: Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street or online. Cost: Free. Booking essential. More information

Philippa Werry awarded first runner up for the Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

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

PHANZA Members Help Showcase Local History Resources to Teachers and Schools

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

Book News: Karin Speedy’s ‘Foundations’

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

New Zealand Society of Authors Regional Road Show: Te Whanganui a Tara, 2 July 2022

Posted on June 15 2022

PHANZA member Paul Diamond is amongst the speakers at the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Regional Roadshow in Te Whanganui a Tara on 2 July 2022. The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Regional Roadshow brings professional development to the regions. NZSA Regional Roadshows are

News from the Stout Research Centre

Posted on June 11 2022

Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich has been appointed as the Director of the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies. As a Professor of Anthropology, Professor Bönisch-Brednich first connected with the Stout in 1996 when she and her husband, also an anthropologist, spent a year as research residents investigating the history of German immigration to New Zealand. She then joined the Te

The Friends of the Turnbull Library Research Grant 2023

Posted on June 9 2022

Scholars undertaking research in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library are invited to apply for the Friends of the Turnbull Library Research Grant, worth up to $20,000. Closing date is 7 October 2022. The research project must include use of material in the Turnbull collections (but does not exclude use of other institutions) The Grant may be shared between

Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards – 2023 Applications

Posted on June 9 2022

The Judith Binney Trust has announced that the opening date for the 2023 Fellowship and Writing Awards is 4 July 2022 and closes at 5pm on 26 August 2022. It is anticipated that the recipients of the 2023 Fellowship and Awards will be announced in November 2022. The Judith Binney Fellowships and Awards support research and writing on the history

Research Required

Posted on June 9 2022

PHANZA has been contacted by a Finnish writer, Karl-Gustav Olin, who needs some research done for him on Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) immigrants and seamen at Archives New Zealand’s Wellington office. The amount of research required is not significant and he has a small budget to cover the work. If this interests you or you would like to know more about

Volume 28, Issue 1 (April 2022)

Posted on June 1 2022

In the April 2022 issue of Phanzine Michael Kelly encourages members to complete their PHANZA website profiles; Liz Ward and Carol Neill report on Massey University’s stocktake of Aotearoa New Zealand’s local histories resources; David Young discusses how he put his book Wai Pasikia; Indigenous ways in a changing climate together; Ruth Greenaway describes the content of a new book

Applications for The CLNZ | NZSA Writers’ Award Open

Posted on June 1 2022

The Copyright Licensing New Zealand and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa Writers’ Award of $25,000 is one of the highest non-fiction prizes in New Zealand literature, and is now open for applications. The award was established to provide financial support for writers wishing to devote time to a specific project, and to cover reasonable

The Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2023

Posted on May 30 2022

To mark the occasion of its 25th anniversary in 2016, the Friends of the Hocken Collections (FOHC) offered an award of NZ$10,000 to support a research project on some aspect of the historical development of culture and society in New Zealand, primarily using the resources of the Hocken Collections. Detailed Application Information will be available on the Friends of the

The New Zealand Journal of Public History – New articles by Katie Pickles and Sarah Gallagher

Posted on May 24 2022

PHANZA is delighted to let our members know that two new NZJPH articles are now available. Katie Pickles’ ‘Christchurch’s Cathedral Square and the Importance of Public Squares’ and Sarah Gallagher’s ‘A “Clever Knight of the Camera”: A Biographical Note About Frederick Finch, Resident of Wakatipu’ can both be found on the PHANZA website here. Katie Pickles is Professor of History

Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand Talk – Wednesday 1st June 2022

Posted on May 23 2022

Emeritus Professor Kay Morris Matthews, Associate Researcher and Curator MTG Hawke’s Bay is giving at talk for CTANZ on Wednesday 1 June 7pm-8pm via zoom. “A Lightbulb Moment: Integrating Cottage Industries within a New Zealand Women’s Movement”. This talk will draw on the life of (Anna Elizabeth) Jerome Spencer (1872-1955) founder and leader of the New Zealand Women’s Institutes and