Emeritus Professor Brian Halton, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Portraits of Assoc. Prof. W.E. (Ted) Harvey
University archives: VUCP00014 (photographic prints collection, ref. VUW 2/164) and VUWI00135 (photographic proofs collection, no. 785)
“Ted Harvey was the ‘tough-talking’ Associate Professor of Chemistry who went on to serve as University Registrar from 1977 until his retirement in 1989. Sadly, the occasion for this research was to accompany obituaries in VicNews and Chemistry in New Zealand.”
Edmund King, NZETC
“Lacking a developed sense of cultural nationalism”?
Edmund King
The ships of Tarshish : a sequel to Sue’s Wandering Jew / by Mohoao [Fairburn, Edwin, 1827-1911].
Publisher: London : Hall ; Auckland, N.Z. : Upton & Co., Booksellers, 1867 [i.e. 1884]
Description: [4] p., 32, 104 p., [4] leaves of plates : facsims., plans; 21 cm.
Callmark: PR9698 F164 S; & also www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-FaiShip
“Although it was the first novel written by a New Zealand-born author, Edwin Fairburn’s Ships of Tarshish (1867) certainly provides little support for a cultural-nationalist literary agenda. Set mostly in and around London and advertising itself as a sequel to Eugene Sue’s The Wandering Jew, Fairburn’s eccentric novel seems, at first glance, largely concerned with British naval policy. Yet, I argue, The Ships of Tarshish and its pamphlet-sized sequel The Ships of the Future (1889) reveal much about Victorian imperial ideology and its influence on settler identity.”
Christine McCarthy, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture
Wallpapers
From the collection of Martin Hill, part of the recently established Architecture and Design Collected Archives
The Martin Hill collection included c500 samples of wallpaper collected from houses throughout central New Zealand, 700 rolls of wallpaper recovered from the belongings of two Wairarapa painters & decorators of the 1920’s, and several books containing 
1000 samples of wallpaper from the 1900’s.
Much of this material is yet to be processed, but it will form a rich primary resource for research, as Mr Hill documented the addresses, dates and order of wallpaper layers from specific houses.