The Friends of the Turnbull Library
Programme of Activities
2011
Thursday 24 March, at 5.30 pm
Heni Collins
Ka Mate, Ka ora - The Spirit of Te Rauparaha
A new version of Te Rauparaha's life story, from his birth through times of
inter-tribal conflict, migration, settlement in the south (Kapiti Island) and
into the period of colonisation, as researched partly in the Alexander
Turnbull Library. Heni Collins is a Wellington journalist, researcher and
community worker with a MPhil degree in Maori studies.
Turnbull House, Bowen Street
All welcome
Thursday 28 April at 5.30 pm
David Grant, historian and author
Ken Douglas: Man for All Seasons?
David Grant, a former chairperson of the Labour History Project, will discuss
Ken Douglas's leadership of the NZ trade union movement especially in the
late 1980s and 1990s when Bill Birch's Employment Contracts Act turned NZ
industrial relations on its head.
Turnbull House, Bowen Street
All welcome
Wednesday 18 May at 5.30 pm
David Filer, Wellington historian and author of Crete: Death from the
Skies
Images of the Battle of Crete: Photos from the Turnbull Library
Turnbull House, Bowen Street
All welcome
Thursday 16 June at 6.00 pm
Peter Wells, novelist, essayist and film maker
Founder Lecture: The Camera Never Lies
A discussion of the photographs associated with William Colenso, his
wife Elizabeth and his three children, Frances, Latimer and Wiremu. This
year marks the bicentennial of the birth of William Colenso (1811-1899),
the colonial missionary, printer, explorer, botanist and politician, who
produced the first books printed in New Zealand.
St Andrews-On-The-Terrace
All welcome
Thursday 7 July at 5.30 pm
Annual General Meeting - Please note venue
The AGM will be followed by a presentation on recent acquisitions of the
Alexander Turnbull Library.
All members encouraged to attend
Reading Room, 77 Thorndon Quay
Wednesday 24 August at 5.30 pm
Jennifer Shennan, FoTL Research Scholar 2008
will speak on writing the biography of Poul Gnatt,
founder of the New Zealand Ballet.
Turnbull House, Bowen Street
All welcome
Wednesday 21 September at 5.30 pm
Charlotte Macdonald, associate professor of history, VUW
Sport, the Omnivore's Dilemma, a talk on the beautiful, horrible
legacy of 20th century sport
In conjunction with Heritage Month
Turnbull House, Bowen Street
All welcome
Tuesday 15 November at 5.30pm
David Colquhoun, Geoff Mew, Adrian Humphris and Ben Schrader
Wellington stories: different ways of looking at our city's history
David Colquhoun is the author of Wellingtonians: From the Turnbull
collections which takes a light and sometimes quirky look at the capital.
Another recent book, Ring around the City by Adrian Humphris and
Geoff Mew, looks at Wellington's suburban growth 1900-1930, with many rarely seen
photos, maps and plans of early Wellington. Ben Schrader is a public historian
specialising in urban history and heritage, currently completing a history of
New Zealand city life.
Turnbull House, Bowen Street
All welcome
Friends of the Turnbull Library 2011
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