Brenden Shirley
Posted on October 6 2021
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Vaughan Wood
Posted on September 21 2021
Dr Vaughan Wood is an environmental historian with a longstanding interest in the environmental history of New Zealand during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a postdoctoral fellow on the Marsden Fund project Empires of Grass, as well as the Canterbury History Foundation Community Historian for 2008. He is the author of Akaroa Cocksfoot: King of Grasses (2014), and has
Stephen Clarke
Posted on September 21 2021
A History graduate of the University of Otago (BA Hons, MA) and the University of New South Wales (PhD), I am a professional historian, founder and managing director of Making History Ltd. After working as a historian at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and a fifteen-year career with charities in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom, I founded
Sheridan Gundry
Posted on September 21 2021
I was born in Auckland but, after 33 years living around the wider Eastland district, call Gisborne my home. I drew on over 12 years in journalism and a degree in English to establish GEMS Communications in early 1997. I was a reporter for The Opotiki News for two years before becoming sub-editor and senior journalist at The Gisborne Herald
Ruth Greenaway
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
Reuben Daube
Posted on September 21 2021
I’m a born and bred Wellingtonian and a qualified heritage professional. After spending time working as a labourer in Bristol and a tour guide at Iona Abbey, I returned home from my OE to undertake the Museum and Heritage Practice program at Victoria University of Wellington. Since graduating in 2019, I have been working in the Wellington City Council Cultural
Randolph Hollingsworth
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
Philippa Werry
Posted on September 21 2021
I grew up in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth, and studied English and Greek at the University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in Middle English. Later I worked at the Parliamentary Library, and as a law librarian in Wellington and London. I now live in Wellington. I write fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry, primarily for children and young
R Bester
Posted on September 21 2021
Phil Lascelles
Posted on September 21 2021
Professional Summary A rare combination of current knowledge, expertise and experience in Business Leadership and Management, Digital and Information Technology, and Heritage, History and Material Culture. Looking to channel my knowledge, expertise and experience into museums, history and the heritage sector. Experienced and accomplished senior management team member, leader, manager and practitioner in use of information and digital technology for
Paul Diamond
Posted on September 21 2021
Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is Curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He is the author of A Fire in Your Belly: Māori leaders speak (Huia, 2003), Makereti: Taking Māori to the world (Random House, 2007) and Savaged to Suit: Māori and cartooning in New Zealand (Fraser Books, 2018). He has previously worked as an oral historian
niki.francis@gmail.com
Posted on September 21 2021
Kia ora! I am a Pākehā New Zealander of English, German and Highland Scottish origin who has lived in 10 cities in 6 countries and worked in a wide range of occupations. I have a PhD in history from the Australian National University (2015) where I wrote a thesis in the National Centre of Biography about the New Zealand-born Australian
Michelle Smith
Posted on September 21 2021
Having completed a BA (History and Education) in 1999 and a BA Honours (History) in 2005, at the University of Auckland, and worked in the disability sector for a number of years, I went back to university on a doctoral scholarship. In 2009, I completed my PhD, ‘Assessing Gender in the Construction of Scottish Identity c.1286-c.1586’, which was conferred in
Moira Smith
Posted on September 21 2021
I am an experienced heritage consultant with a practice that specialises in heritage identification, assessment, management, and policy advice. With more than 25 years’ experience working with built heritage, both in architecture practice and local government, I am a registered architect with a postgraduate qualification in museum and heritage studies. I have extensive experience working as a heritage architect on
mdbrown@actrix.co.nz
Posted on September 21 2021
Michael Brown has been researching New Zealand music and adjacent topics for twenty years. He currently works as Curator, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. His areas of research have included folksong collecting, tramping songs, community singing, the piano in New Zealand, trade union and socialist singing, and the ‘Maori strum’ guitar style. Recently he has written about
Marguerite Hill
Posted on September 21 2021
I am currently working as Heritage Researcher 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. My list