Author Archives: Sue Hirst

Dr Inge van Rij from Music Studies and Susette Goldsmith from Museum & Heritage Studies will talk about their research into two of New Zealand’s international exhibitions. Monday September 19th, 2016 from 1-2pm, in the J.C.Beaglehole Room – All welcome … Continue reading →

Kia ora koutou Following on from the tradition of the 3 Books, 3 Scholars seminar, we are pleased to be presenting a lunchtime seminar in which items from the J.C.Beaglehole Room collections are featured. On Monday the 30th of May, we … Continue reading →

Kia ora koutou In the latest of our lunchtime seminar series, as promised at the March seminar, the J.C.Beaglehole Room staff will take a turn to present items from the collection which have captured their interest. Chrissy Tetley will talk … Continue reading →

An occasional interdisciplinary seminar featuring the collections of the J.C.Beaglehole Room.  RB404 – J.C.Beaglehole Reading Room.  All welcome. For this seminar we have a French connection. Recueil d’estampes d’après les plus beaux tableaux et d’après les plus beaux desseins qui … Continue reading →

Kia ora Ron and Carmen Smith were well-known Wellington activists for many years.   In 2012 the J.C.Beaglehole Room received from their family a collection of posters and pamphlets relating mostly to their peace, anti-nuclear and environmental activism.  They had quite a … Continue reading →

A few years ago we received a donation from Les Cleveland which included his collection of election advertising, dating back to 1890.   We have made apoint of collecting party political leaflets each general election since then, by the unscientific but reasonably … Continue reading →

Kia ora koutou We recently had a researcher in looking at our 19th century books on lichens.  That visit inspired the mounting of an exhibition of some of the books, which – among their interesting qualities – have wonderful and fascinating … Continue reading →

Kia ora We have a new exhibition in our cases on Level 4 outside the J.C.Beaglehole Room.  The material is drawn from two collections of papers related to Vietnam and the Vietnam war, for which we have recently created finding aids. … Continue reading →

I have just heard that an asteroid has recently been named after J.C.Beaglehole. We are regularly reminded of just what a significant figure J.C.Beaglehole was in the history of exploration. It seems that space exploration is no different.  It most definitely tips … Continue reading →