LIsa Sacksen
Lisa Sacksen, PhD researcher, History
Wellington Trades Council archives
A forum for the consultation and combined action of unions in the Wellington district was established in the 1890s. The 4.5 linear metres of records held here are predominantly minutes and correspondence files c1925 -1978. Ref: NRAM B975
“The Wellingon Trades Council archive provides a valuable insight into the ways in which Trades Union worked together, and the types of causes (ranging from the Vietnam War to the continuation of free milk to schools) which the delegates to the meetings brought forward and debated. I am looking, in particular for the impact that 2nd Wave Feminism had upon the Trade Union movement in New Zealand. It is still early days (I am only up to 1964) but already delegates have addressed themselves to the necessity of continuing the “family” wage saying that women wouldn’t be “forced” to take up part-time work, if their husbands were paid properly.
The Wellington Trades Council archive is an important part of labour history, and I am grateful that I can enjoy unimpeded access to it.”
Lizzie Ingham & Gillian Turner
Gillian Turner and Lizzie Ingham, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Abel Janszoon Tasman’s journal …
Translated by J. de Hoop Scheffer and C. Stoffel.
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. Ref: Fildes 1555
Our research is concerned with Earth’s core, the seething cauldron of molten iron
that lies at the centre of our planet, and the magnetic field generated within it. This
magnetic field guided Abel Tasman and other early explorers to our part of the world,
and it is through their compass observations that we are now trying to unravel the
history of the geomagnetic field in the SW Pacific region, and its origin, the geodynamo.