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Tag: women
Posts tagged with women
Updating the language we use to describe our collections
By Emma Roache
27 February 2024
Reparative description at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Collections
Tracing your maternal line: Part II — The Durrant family in New Zealand
By Helen Smith
20 December 2023
Family history research — finding the women in your family tree.
Collections
Long reads
Tracing your maternal line: Part I — England in the 18th-19th centuries
By Helen Smith
28 November 2023
Family history research — finding the women in your family tree.
Collections
Long reads
The eight-hour workday
By Louise Garrett
20 October 2023
Photography collections documenting New Zealand's labour history and the workers' rights movement.
Collections
Off the record | The house that Florence built
By Elizabeth Cox
23 August 2023
Piecing together the story of architect Florence Field of Nelson.
Collections
The beautiful game
By Kimberley Stephenson
17 August 2023
Documenting the rise of women's football in Aotearoa New Zealand
Collections
Off the record | A welcome home
By Paul Diamond and Seán McMahon
11 August 2023
About the typed manuscript of ‘the bone people’.
Collections
Off the record | With help from our Friends
By Jennifer Cauchi
26 July 2023
Conservation treatment of Isabella Turnbull's portrait.
Collections
'a series of Heavens': Katherine Mansfield in her own words
By Camus Wyatt
29 March 2023
Notes on the digitisation of the Mansfield notebooks.
Collections
Eulogy for Mary Ronnie (1926-2023)
By Allison Dobbie
28 March 2023
Tribute to a legend of the library world and the first woman national librarian.
Long reads
Outside the Library
Ngā pukapuka hou – What’s new in the Māori Reference Collection?
By Trish Beamsley
7 February 2023
New books in the Māori Reference Collection
Collections
This year’s Ngaios
By Anna Lower
20 October 2021
Collection spotlight on Ngaio Marsh and the New Zealand murder mystery literary award that shares her name.
Collections
The Women’s Suffrage Petition Biographies Project: Research 101
By Christa Hopkinson
11 August 2020
Writing a biography of women who signed the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition.
Collections
Explore women's suffrage with your class
By Kate Potter
21 July 2017
2018 marks 125 years since women in Aotearoa gained the right to vote in general elections — a world first. It's a great opportunity to explore how women and men worked together to achieve this important milestone.
Libraries and learning
An exciting Suffrage Petition research opportunity for students
By Kate Potter
28 July 2016
In 2017, an important new exhibition will open at National Library (Wellington) featuring 3 constitutional taonga that have shaped us as a nation.
Libraries and learning
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