Urban and suburban

Matthew Grant

Posted on January 30 2025

I am a self-employed registered architect (FNZIA) with over 20 years’ experience delivering a range of building projects across the Waikato and surrounding areas. More recently my work has been in the design and documentation of multi-level, medium- density residential housing. I have experience teaching at tertiary level at Wintec (2006), Unitec (2015), and Open Polytechnic (2015-16).  I have researched

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Amanda McVitty, FRHistS

Posted on March 15 2024

I am the Director of Arque Research, a specialist research consulting company that helps businesses, institutions and cultural organisations use history to connect with staff, customers, stakeholders and communities. I have skills, knowledge and experience gained over a 30-year career spanning academic and applied research, journalism and marketing, and university teaching and postgraduate supervision. My expertise includes legal history, urban

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Natalie Marshall

Posted on August 31 2023

Natalie is currently working part-time as a Heritage Assessment Advisor at the Central Region office of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, based in Wellington. She is also a freelance researcher, curator, and writer. She was curator of photographs at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, from 2011 to 2023, and has held previous roles in acquisition, appraisal,

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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 post-graduate Diploma from

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Malcolm McKinnon

Posted on September 21 2021

Malcolm McKinnon is an adjunct associate professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. He taught New Zealand history and international relations in the History Department at Victoria University of Wellington between 1979 and 1990; he has taught courses and supervised research in the School over the last fifteen years. He published a landmark study of

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Karen Stade

Posted on September 21 2021

Following a journalism career in Nelson I elected to focus on what I loved writing about – history. Several books written to mark school anniversaries followed, along with a commission to research and write history stories for The Prow http://www.theprow.org.nz/. Meet You At The Church Steps, an illustrated history of a city landmark, followed. A Nelson Provincial Museum commission led

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Ian Dougherty

Posted on September 21 2021

Hello. I am a Dunedin-based historian but tend to travel to where the work takes me. I have an MA in history from Otago University and a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury University. I am the author of more than 30 non-fiction books on New Zealand history, biography, culture and society. I am always looking for interesting new projects, large

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Grace Bateman

Posted on September 21 2021

Dr Grace Bateman (PhD Otago, History). Dunedin – based historian. nzskatinghistory.org.nz I am available for research into a diverse variety of aspects of society and culture. I have a wide range of experience in researching and writing many different topics using different methodologies, both as project lead, and as a research assistant. Two examples of this diversity are my recent

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Helen Leggatt

Posted on September 21 2021

My research background is in social history, specifically deathways and social attitudes towards disposal of the dead in New Zealand and across the Anglosphere. I specialise in recovering the lives, and deaths, of everyday people otherwise lost in the archives. My PhD ‘Burning God’s Own: A Social History of Modern Cremation in New Zealand 1874-1946’ (2023) represents the first social

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Elizabeth Cox

Posted on September 21 2021

I am an experienced social and architectural historian, having worked as a historian and heritage professional for over two decades. I am available for short term contracts, and can assist with Archives research too. My business is Bay Heritage Consultants. I have completed hundreds of historical reports, heritage assessments and conservation plans about Wellington buildings and sites, as well as

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Diana Morrow

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)

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Ann McEwan

Posted on September 21 2021

I am an experienced heritage consultant with a nation-wide practice that specialises in cultural heritage identification, assessment and policy advice. With a PhD in art and architectural history from the University of Canterbury, I lectured at the University of Waikato for ten years before establishing Heritage Consultancy Services in 2006. My work ranges from large-scale district plan review inputs for

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Margaret Tennant

Posted on September 10 2021

While I am a flexible and experienced historian, my specialist research fields include women’s history and welfare history, with recent commissions relating to the history of voluntary organisations. I have written for the DNZB, Te Ara, Phanzine, museum websites, and newspapers as well as in more academic contexts. My most recent research has taken me into local history, most notably

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