3 Books, 3 Scholars Tuesday 25th November 2008 – Les Cleveland, Matthew Reweti-Gould, Grahame Anderson

Les Cleveland

Les Cleveland, Collector
‘Wonderful Examples of the Propagandists’ Art’
e.g. (loan item visible in image):  ‘Join the swing to National’, 1960, photolithograph print on poster, 382 x 252 mm

An exhibition of election pamphlets from 1943 to 1993 is on display on Level 2 of the Central Library, drawing from the Library’s collections and from items on loan from Les Clevelend – retired Lecturer and Reader in Political Science and Public Administration (1966-1987), also renowned photographer, folklorist, and popular culture historian.
Matthew Reweti-Gould, Alumni Relations Manager
Weir House 75th Jubilee

Matthew Reweti-Gould

The Spike: or Victoria College Review (1902-1961); SMAD : sapienta magis auro desideranda (1930-1937); Salient: an organ of student opinion … (1938-); Weir House annual group photographs; The Weir House Magazine (1935-); Weir House Committee and Association Minutebooks;  privately held photographs and photograph albums;  Jubilee organisation files; a Weir House Membership Register …

“University archive resources were heavily drawn upon in preparation for the recent 75th Weir House Jubilee reunion, and were also forthcoming as donations from former residents. We were particularly thrilled to welcome the only surviving print of the official group portrait from 1976, and look forward to seeing a copy soon with the other Weir House portraits available online via the Library website (URL http://library.vuw.ac.nz/jcbr/findingaids/component.php?p=reg.weir&r=ref1).”
Grahame Anderson, Independent researcher
Of Galileo, Tasman, & Newton

Abel Janszoon Tasman’s journal of his discovery of Van  Diemens Land and New Zealand in 1642 … facsimiles of the original manuscript …
Publisher: Amsterdam, F. Muller & co., 1898.
Description: 5 p.l., [195] p. (facsims.) 1 l., 59 p., 1 l., 163 p., 1 l., 21 p. illus., 5 fold. maps in pocket. 45 cm.
Call Number:  Fildes 1555

Abel Janszoon Tasman & the discovery of New Zealand.
Publisher: Wellington : Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1942.
Description:  66 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Callmark: DU410 A139

Grahame Anderson

“Grahame Anderson intends to reveal significant and hitherto unrecognised connections between Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton with Abel Tasman’s 1642-1643 voyage of exploration into the Pacific.
Their common involvement in the search for a means of finding longitude at sea was, Grahame will demonstrate, both strong and direct and, contrary to the longstanding opinions of numerous historians, in particular many here in New Zealand, Tasman led a team of skilled and able navigators in the forefront of Dutch East India Company participation in what, given great increases in oceanic trading voyages, had by the early 1600s become a matter of vital significance to rapidly developing world-wide sea-borne trade.”

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