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The Story of William Coppell 1844-1913: Part III – The runaway husband and father
By Helen Smith
9 November 2022
Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.
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Restriction reviews and exciting withdrawals
By Jared Davidson
26 October 2022
How the Turnbull Library manages access to restricted manuscripts held in the collections.
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The Story of William Coppell 1844-1913: Part II – The fire and the hasty marriage
By Helen Smith
6 October 2022
Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.
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Tall Dwarfs ‘Unearthed and Unravelled’
By Alec Bathgate
27 September 2022
Tall Dwarfs' Alec Bathgate writes about putting together their retrospective box set, 'Unravelled'.
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A life in miniature
By Anthony Tedeschi
8 September 2022
Identifying a miniature portrait in the Rare Books Collection.
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Off the record | Exploring what we do not have
By Ashwinee Pendharkar
7 September 2022
The silences, gaps, and missing voices in the Library's collections.
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The Story of William Coppell 1844-1913: Part 1 – The Captain
By Helen Smith
31 August 2022
Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.
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Peter Downes: A tribute
By Roger Flury
7 April 2022
Celebrating the life and legacy of broadcaster and historian Peter Downes.
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Highlights of 2021 from the Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team
By Sascha Nolden
17 December 2021
The annual retrospective with observations and reflections from the Turnbull Library team who make our collections easier to find and use.
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Curios and convict bricks
By Jared Davidson
17 November 2021
Was Turnbull House made from prison bricks? Jared Davidson gets to the bottom of some convict curios in the collection.
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Ngā tino mahi o te tau — Turnbull Library Arrangement & Description team highlights of 2020
By Sascha Nolden
22 December 2020
Personal highlights from the last year by the team who arrange and describe the unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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What’s in a Tupuna name?
By Ariana Tikao
14 December 2020
Find out about the work to improve and update 100's of Māori name records in the Turnbull Library's database of unpublished collections.
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Making Turnbull collections more discoverable
By Nicola Frean
28 October 2020
Inside the Library’s work to improve name index terms and expand access to collections.
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Archiving Email 2020 Symposium
By Valerie Love
19 February 2020
Meeting the challenges of email archiving.
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Ngā tino mahi o te tau — A&D team highlights of 2019
By Ariana Tikao
17 December 2019
New acquisitions to the unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Call for proposals: Archiving email symposium
By Jessica Moran
13 November 2019
Interested in challenges and solutions for collecting and preserving email? Send us your proposal for the one-day symposium to discuss archiving email.
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New Zealand Theatre month
By Peter Rowlands
26 September 2018
Commemorating New Zealand Theatre Month with reflections on theatre in the Far North by guest blogger Peter Rowlands.
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Arranged, described, and ready for you!
By Valerie Love
10 January 2018
Newly available collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Glass plates, yachts, maps and more
By Valerie Love
20 January 2017
The Arrangement & Description team looks back at 2016.
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Tiaki – one year on
By Valerie Love
8 December 2016
Our new update to Tiaki makes it even better for researchers.
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