You are invited to the annual general meeting of the Friends of the Turnbull Library, Wednesday 23 July 2025
After the meeting, Helen McCracken will discuss how heritage organisations safeguarded their national collections by evacuating cultural treasures during the Second World War.
Author and historian Dr Mere Whaanga talks about her research at the Turnbull Library for a project, ‘Conflict, Land, and Leadership’, exploring 19th century conflicts in the greater Māhia/Wairoa area in this month’s Friends of the Turnbull talk on 12 August
In this month’s Friends of the Turnbull event, author and lecturer Annabel Cooper will talk about researching New Zealand filmmaker Rudall Hayward, best known for his silent films but also his later feature films ‘Rewi’s Last Stand’ and ‘To Love a Māori’.
Helen Beaglehole reflected on the challenges of researching and writing her recently published account of the complex history of settlement of the Sounds: One Hundred Havens: The settlement of the Marlborough Sounds published in 2022 by Massey University Press.
Delving into the Futuna Chapel Trust archive, the Scott family archive and the newly established and digitised John Scott Drawing Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Nick Bevin will explore and reveal the extent and significance of the work of architect John Scott.
Jeffrey Sissons will revisit material from his book The Forgotten Prophet and present a new understanding of the politically significant yet overlooked Taranaki iconoclasm