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Current research in the J.C.Beaglehole Room – Two perspectives on New Zealand’s international exhibitions – Monday 19th September, 2016, 1pm

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

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Spotlight on Special Collections: Futuna Chapel and Cahiers d’Art – Monday 30 May, 2016, 12:30, in the J.C.Beaglehole Room

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

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4 books, 3 librarians – J.C.Beaglehole Room, Tuesday 19 May 2015, 12-1pm

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

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2 Books, 2 Scholars – Tuesday 2nd December 2014, 12:30-1:30 – David Maskill, Christiane Mortelier

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

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Peace Now! – posters from the Ron and Carmen Smith Collection

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

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Vote for us! Electoral advertising leaflets from 1890 to the present on display

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

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New exhibition at the J.C.Beaglehole Room – Lichens

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

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New exhibition – Vietnam

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

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Asteroid Beaglehole

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

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You can now request published items via the catalogue

Kia ora Recently we implemented a new way of requesting material from the published collections in the J.C.Beaglehole Room which we hope will make things easier for those of you on the Victoria University network.  It works like this: Having searched … Continue reading

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