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Showing posts with label labour history project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labour history project. Show all posts
Thursday, August 10, 2023

From Crew to the Chain Gang: Seamen, Prison Labour and ‘Improvement’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand

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In this rare photograph taken in the late 1860s or early 1870s, the Lyttelton hard-labour gang are working at Officers Point. Lyttelton Muse...
Monday, August 17, 2020

‘Dead Letters’ wins the 2020 Bert Roth Award

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From the LHP website : Jared Davidson is the winner of the 2020 Bert Roth Award for Labour History for his book, Dead Letters: Censorship an...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

'From the Bottom Up': Review of Dead Letters

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Review of Dead Letters  by Emma Jean Kelly and Matariki Roche from the LHP Bulletin 76, August 2019. This incredible book almost mak...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Dead Letters on the Educating for Social Change podcast

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It was neat to be interviewed for Wellington Access Radio's Educating for Social Change podcast last week, covering Dead Letters , la...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Join the Labour History Project!

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LHP Bulletin No.75 is now out for our current members! It's also time to renew your membership for 2019-2020, or if you haven't ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Precarious Pasts and Postwork Futures

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This article was first published in the November 2017 edition of the LHP Bulletin , which had precarious work as its theme. Other articl...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Wobblies of the World: New Zealand Launch!

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Join New Zealand contributors, Mark Derby and Peter Clayworth, plus special guests, for a presentation of this new history of the global...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Dissent during the First World War Conference, 31 Aug - 2 Sep 2017

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Thomas Moynihan, conscientious objector, Wanganui Detention Barracks 1918. Archives New Zealand Hosted by the Stout Research Centre f...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Lunchtime talk - a few pics

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Thank you all who attended my lunchtime talk . Images by Llewelyn Jones, courtesy of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātau...
Monday, June 22, 2015

The myth of New Zealand exceptionalism (1): a workers paradise

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New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain). New Zealand wants domestic servants; good homes, good wages. [ca 1912].. Information about ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Wobbly driplines: strikes, stowaways & the SS Manuka

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TSS Manuka berthed next to Princes Wharf, Auckland, c.1909. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 35-R35. What do a...