• We are now inviting contributions for the 2027 issue of the Turnbull Library Record. The theme for this issue is ‘home’ and ‘away’. We particularly invite submissions engaging with distance, correspondence, identity, travel, whenua, and belonging. But all submissions will…

  • It was fascinating to hear John E. Martin discuss the career of Isaac ‘Petatone’ Featherston on March 10th. A doctor, newspaper editor, Provincial Representative and a man central to land purchasing in the 1860s. We learned how a ship’s surgeon,…

  • A very enthusiastic crowd assembled in person and on-line to hear  Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson discuss their detective work in piecing together the work of botanical artist, Emily Cumming Harris and her work held at the Turnbull Library. People…