These images come from the LHP Symposium, ‘From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980s’, held on…
Change of venue – LHP Symposium
CHANGE OF VENUE! The LHP Symposium is going ahead on Saturday but will now be held at Loaves and Fishes…
TUHP Bulletin 10, August 1990
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TUHP Bulletin 9, April 1990
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TUHP Bulletin 8, December 1989
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TUHP Bulletin 7, August 1989
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TUHP Bulletin 6, April 1989
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TUHP Bulletin 5, December 1988
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TUHP Bulletin 4, September 1988
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TUHP Bulletin 3, July 1988
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TUHP Bulletin 2, May 1988
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TUHP Bulletin 1, October 1987
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Registrations for the 2021 LHP Symposium are now open!
Registrations for the 2021 LHP Symposium are now open! Registration is limited and required for catering purposes, so please register…
LHP Bulletin 79, August 2020
Click below to download a PDF version of LHP Bulletin 79, August 2020. Digital version LHP Bulletin 79 (PDF 4MB)…
LHP Bulletin 78, April 2020
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Chair’s Report 2020
The LHP AGM, on Tuesday evening, 11 August, was a most enjoyable event attended by 70 people (our biggest number…
‘From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980s’, a Labour History Project Symposium
Saturday 20 February 2021 NEW VENUE: Loaves and Fishes Hall, 2 Hill Street, Thorndon, Wellington (opposite Parliament and the National…
‘Dead Letters’ wins the 2020 Bert Roth Award
Jared Davidson is the winner of the 2020 Bert Roth Award for Labour History for his book, Dead Letters: Censorship…
Announcing the Bert Roth Award for Labour History 2020 Shortlist!
The Labour History Project is excited to announce the shortlisted titles in the running for the Bert Roth Award for…
LHP AGM for 2020: Politics in a time of crisis
You are warmly invited to the Labour History Project AGM for 2020: ‘Politics in a time of crisis’. This year’s…
LHP Bulletin 77, November 2019
LHP Bulletin 77 (Winning Ways) is our special-themed November edition of the Bulletin. Digital version LHP Bulletin 77 (PDF 1.4MB) Feature…
Our 2020 theme – From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980s
The LHP is excited to announce our theme for 2020: From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the…
The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson
By Jared Davidson Download this paper as a PDF (704KB) On Saturday 26 August 1843, pay day for the gang-men…
LHP Bulletin 76, August 2019
LHP Bulletin 76 (Shape Shifting) includes a round-up of the Bert Roth Award for Labour History 2019, as well as…
Video of the 2019 Rona Bailey Lecture by Dean Parker
In the 2019 Rona Bailey lecture held at the National Library of New Zealand, Dean Parker talked about growing up…
2019 Rona Bailey lecture: Dean Parker – Two Tickets to Barbarism
Date: Thursday, 17 October, 2019 Time: 5:30pm refreshments, 6:00pm lecture Cost: Donations welcome. You don’t need to book. Location: Taiwhanga Kahau — Auditorium (lower ground floor), Corner…
Bert Roth Award for Labour History 2019
The Bert Roth award, named for the late historian, is presented annually by the Labour History Project to the work…
LHP Bulletin 75, April 2019
April 2019 edition of the LHP Bulletin, with articles by Bill Bradford, John Shennan and Paul Maunder. It followed the…
LHP Bulletin 74, November 2018
The special-themed November 2018 edition of the LHP Bulletin—’Pay Equity and Equal Employment Opportunity’—put the history of the “gender pay gap”…
Chair’s Report 2019
LHP Chairperson Cybele Locke and others at the Labour History Project’s AGM, Wellington Museum, 2019. I want to begin by…