Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand 

Catherine Bishop is a Sydney-based historian with a particular focus on women. She has a postdoctoral fellowship at Macquarie University (2019-2021) . She has published a number of articles and her first book Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney was published in Oct 2015. This book was awarded the 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize. She is also interested in heritage, particularly in the way women’s history has been memorialised. Her lively talk was well illustrated with entertaining stories from New Zealand’s colonial past.

Her new book (Women Mean Business) on colonial businesswomen in New Zealand was published by Otago University Press in October 2019.