Year: 2015
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Research Grant 2016 Awarded
Murder History project wins FoTL Grant Christchurch researcher Jarrod Gilbert has been awarded the 2016 Friends of the Turnbull Library Grant of $10,000 to assist in researching his new project, a social history of New Zealand focussing on the crime of murder. Jarrod Gilbert is an independent researcher, a part-time university lecturer in sociology, and…
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Three new Guardians Kaitiaki appointed
Minister for the National Library Peter Dunne has announced the appointment of Dr Aroha Harris, Dr Jock Phillips and Dr Sydney Shep to the Guardians Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Helen Tait (Chair) has been re-appointed for a further three-year term. Helen Walker continues her current term of appointment.
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Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History wins the Royal Society Science Prize
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, written by Atholl Anderson, the late Dame Judith Binney and Aroha Harris and published by Bridget Williams Books, has been honoured with the prestigious Royal Society of New Zealand 2015 Science Book Prize. Described by the judges as ‘a dazzling work of scholarship’, this superb Māori history offers new perspectives on our…