Year: 2016

  • Research Grant 2017 Awarded

    Ryan Bodman, photo by Claire Eastham-Farrelly Auckland researcher Ryan Bodman has been awarded the 2017 Friends of the Turnbull Library Grant of $15,000 to assist in researching his new project, a social and cultural history of rugby league in New Zealand.  Ryan Bodman is an independent researcher, at present a contracted historian to the Waitangi…

  • Book launch: Mansfield’s early life and collected poems

    Dr Gerri Kimber, who was awarded the 2015 FoTL Research Grant to write a biography of Katherine Mansfield’s early years, has now had her book published by Edinburgh University Press. The New Zealand launch of this book, KATHERINE MANSFIELD: THE EARLY YEARS, and a new book of THE COLLECTED POEMS OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD (edited by Gerri…