Anna Jackson
Dr. Anna Jackson, Senior Lecturer, English
Nurse Charlotte
Author: Meade, L. T., 1854-1914.
Publisher: London : Long, 1904.
Description: 319 p.
Call Number: Brancepeth 249/4
“The Victorians and Edwardians had a very different conception of adolescence to our own. In the ENGL 444 course ‘Pirates, Fags, and New Women’, students read a number of canonical texts for or about adolescents, and place them in their historical and social context.”
Tina Barton, Director, Adam Art Gallery
Harry Orsman Archives
Tina Barton
‘New Zealand’s most accomplished, most durable, and most loved lexicographer’, Dr Harold William Orsman CNZM (1928–2002), taught in the English Department, Victoria University of Wellington, from 1960-1993. The Library holds his papers including research notes and correspondence
Tina will discuss her use of archival material relating to Harry Orsman to accompany the recent exhibition of a new acquisition to the VUW Art Collection, a painting by John Reynolds, ‘Looking west, Late Afternoon, Low Water’ (2007), that uses all the Maori headwords in Harry Orsman’s 1997 Dictionary of New Zealand English.
NIck Leckie
Nick Leckie, Architecture student
Victoria University Archives
…including Works & Services Building Projects files: Rankine Brown Courtyard Covered Bay Specification , 1980; Preliminary Design Report on Enclosure of Rankine Brown Precinct and Library Extension, 1984 etc., and publications, eg: Victoria University : images of campus development.
Publisher: [Wellington,]: VUW, School of Architecture, [1982].
Description: 28 leaves. Call Number: LG741 V6 V645
“The roof canopy over the quad intrigued me. I took the opportunity of a research assignment in my second year Architecture course to look into what the Quad has meant to the Kelburn Campus over the years, why a roof structure was needed and how the roof that we currently have came about. University archives and the J. C. Beaglehole Room were great sources for the project. The research also looked into exciting future plans for the Quad area.”