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Posted on September 21 2021
Experienced Collection Manager and Archivist with a demonstrated history of working in the heritage industry. Skilled in archives and collection management and research. Professional with a Post Graduate Diploma Museum Studies, Bachelor of Arts in history and Diploma of Business in management.
Posted on September 21 2021
I am an Auckland-based writer and researcher with a background in book writing and publishing, specialising in New Zealand history. I have a BA in History and a Master of Creative Writing with First Class Honours from Auckland University. Over the past 25 years, I have published a range of books for children and adults, many with a focus on
Posted on September 21 2021
I am passionate about recording the stories of people, families, local communities, businesses, and not-for-profit/community organisations. I am experienced in oral history interviewing, research, writing and publishing. I work with graphic designers, editors and publishers. I studied New Zealand, Australian and Pacific history at Victoria University as well as theatre, and women’s studies. I also have a post-graduate Diploma from
Posted on September 21 2021
Independent Scholar, working on a place-based and cross-cultural history of the 1885 tour of New Zealand by Mary Clement Leavitt, world missionary for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (see work in progress at hollingsworth.wordpress.com). Women’s history offers an interesting lens by which to view mainstream narratives, and critical inquiry provides new insights into our everyday stories of news and community-based
Posted on September 21 2021
Phoebe H. Li (李海蓉）holds a PhD from the University of Auckland and was a research fellow at Tsinghua University (清华大学) in Beijing. She is currently an independent historian. Her research interests include late Qing politics, the Chinese Diaspora in Australasia, and mass media. She was the principal curator of the photographic exhibition “Recollections of A Distant Shore: a Photographic Introduction
Posted on September 21 2021
Michael Wynd is the Researcher and Military Historian at the National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy. My research interests are the military and naval history of New Zealand, general naval history, the First World War, Colonial Warfare in the 19th Century including the New Zealand Wars and the American Civil War Contact Details: 64 King Edward Parade Private
Posted on September 21 2021
I am currently working as Senior Specialist Community Heritage for Auckland Council. I have previously worked as a social history curator at Canterbury Museum and Auckland War Memorial Museum and as a Resources Researcher at Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. I was secretary of PHANZA for many years and also served as a regional representative for Canterbury and Auckland.
Posted on September 21 2021
Posted on September 21 2021
John has been a self-employed landscape historian since 1998 whose business is ‘Endangered Gardens.’ He studied Horticulture and Park and Recreation Administration at Lincoln College in the 1970s an in 1989 he completed a short course in Canada on Heritage Gardens followed by a Bachelor’s Degree in ‘Arts in Anthropology’ at the University of Auckland in 2000. In December 2002
Posted on September 21 2021
Gail is a historian and researcher working in the culture and heritage sector as Associate Curator, War History at Auckland War Memorial Museum. She is particularly interested in social, cultural and economic aspects of New Zealand’s war experiences. She was a member of the team which developed the New Zealand Liberation Museum Te Arawhata in Le Quesnoy, France, and which
Posted on September 21 2021
Experienced historian, local, business, rural, administrative histories, biography, women’s issues. Specialities: local history-Auckland and Wellington, rural, administrative, business history, Maori/Treaty work; biography, museum research and interpretive writing Publications and Research, City of Enterprise 2006 Auckland Business History Urban Village (2008) [Ponsonby History] A Fine Prospect (2011) [Remuera History] Jewish Lives in New Zealand 2012 Changing Times: New Zealand Since 1945(2013)
Posted on September 21 2021
I volunteer at both Devonport and Birkenhead Museums, as well as Auckland Council Archives. I also conduct regular tours of Symonds Street Cemeteries and give public talks on aspects of North Shore history. I graduated with MA Hons in history from the University of Auckland in 1974 and also hold a Diploma from the New Zealand Library School. I worked
Posted on September 21 2021
Dr Christopher Thompson is a design historian and was educated at the University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the University of Brighton (England) where he gained a PhD with a thesis on the invention of industrial design councils in Great Britain and New Zealand. As a cataloguer and, later, curator of international decorative arts and design, he
Posted on September 21 2021
Posted on September 21 2021
Posted on September 21 2021
Medieval historian with an interest in sanitation from 10th to early 20th century