Tag: WWII

  • AGM 2025

    AGM 2025

    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.

  • Brent Coutts: Crossing the Lines: A new history of New Zealand soldiers in WWII

    Brent Coutts: Crossing the Lines: A new history of New Zealand soldiers in WWII

    Brent Coutts discussed the previously untold history of homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experience of Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Douglas Morison, who were female impersonators in the Tui and Pacific Kiwi Concert Parties.