Art history of material culture Art Historian Dr William Cottrell specialised in colonial furniture. He says that new research now… Read more »
Events
Public History Talk: Stories behind the book — ‘Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing’ by Sean Mallon (Wednesday 5 June 2019, Wellington)
3000 years of Samoan tatau The Samoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practiced with indigenous… Read more »
LET’S DEAL WITH IT!: A TRANS-TASMAN CAMPAIGN TOWARDS FACILITATING RACIAL EQUITY – conference, 14 June 2019
Shakti Community Council is organising a one-day conference in Auckland to emphasise the objectives of two of their campaigns “Lets… Read more »
Dragon Tails 2019 conference: CALL FOR PAPERS – deadline extended to 31 May 2019
The call for papers for Dragon Tails 2019 – the 6th Australasian conference on Chinese diaspora history and heritage (20-23 November 2019)… Read more »
Marilyn Waring’s ‘The Political Years’ (talk at National Library, Wellington, 22 May 2019)
In 1975 Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as the MP for Raglan. Aged just 23 and… Read more »
Crowdsourcing history: the women who signed the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition (Wellington, 21 May 2019)
Who were the 32,000 women who signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition? Over 32,000 women from all walks of life signed… Read more »
Stout Research Centre Seminar Series – talk by Professor Alexander Freund (Wellington, 8 May 2019)
Head along to the last in the Stout Research Centre’s Family Seminar Series. Family Memories of War and Flight How… Read more »
Encounters and Exchanges Conference 2019 (call for papers closes 8 May)
The University of Otago and the Tōtaranui 250 Trust announce a conference to take place in Blenheim, New Zealand from… Read more »
Stout Research Centre Seminar Series – talk by Anna Green (Wellington, 1 May 2019)
Come along to the next in the Stout Research Centre’s Family Seminar Series. Origin stories and Pākehā intergenerational family memory… Read more »
Public History Talk by Inge van Rij (Wellington, 1 May)
The hidden women of the public stage: women in New Zealand orchestras at the turn of the twentieth century In… Read more »