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Welcome to the August issue of the Labour History Project Bulletin. Some of the articles are available to read online, or you can download the PDF to read the whole Bulletin. Each issue goes to members first, at least 3…
The Labour History Project regularly organises the Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture, a biennial public lecture looking at labour history in New Zealand, often through a creative lens. In 2017, the lecture was given by Therese Frances O’Connell, and was entitled Stories and…
We are planning the April issue of the LHP Bulletin. If you would like to submit items of interest – articles, current research, news, book reviews – the deadline is March 25, 2018. Please send your work to us at…
The Labour History Project has sent the following statement to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in response to a targeted campaign attacking labour history scholar Tariq Khan. The Labour History Project is a group of New Zealand unionists and historians dedicated…
All are welcome to the 2017 Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture. This year, Therese Frances O’Connell presents Stories and Songs. Therese O’Connell is a full-time feminist who has been a social justice activist in Wellington since the early 1970s. She will…
Each year the LHP gives out the Bert Roth Award to the best work in labour history. The award was given at our AGM. We highly recommend all the works on the short-list to our members and everyone interested in Labour…
Come to the Labour History AGM to hear a talk on the Labour 100 archiving project from Dr Emma Kelly. 5.30pm (for a 6pm start) Thursday 20 July Wellington Museum (3 Jervois Quay) Dr Emma Kelly is the Labour 100…
Registration is now open for the Dissent and the First World War Conference. Register here. Dissent and the First World War 31 August – 2 September 2017 in Wellington The First World War divided New Zealand society in many ways….
The November LHP Bulletin will be focused on the issue of precarious work – non-standard employment that is poorly paid, insecure, unprotected and unsustaining – and campaigns that have been engaged, or are being engaged, to eradicate precarity. We invite…