2019 LHP AGM

You are invited to the 2019 AGM of the Labour History Project. Refreshments provided. When? Tuesday 16 July, 5.30pm for refreshments; 6pm…

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LHP Bulletin No.75 is now out for our current members! It’s also time to renew your membership for 2019-2020, or…

We write in profound love and sorrow in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks against people of Islamic faith, as…

August 2018 edition of the LHP Bulletin—’Captive Labour’—featuring articles by Jared Davidson, Mark Derby and Sue Bradford and reviews by Ross…

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The first special-themed issue of the Labour History Project Bulletin, focusing on precarious work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Articles by…

The Labour History Project awards the Bert Roth Award for labour history work – an event, a publication, a film,…

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There is a growing concern in New Zealand and internationally about the breakdown of ‘standard’ employment relationships, usually defined as…

It has been a privilege to work with an incredibly hard-working, talented and creative (not to mention fun!) Committee of…

The Labour History Project regularly organises the Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture, a biennial public lecture looking at labour history in New Zealand,…

Kia ora koutou, nau mai! Welcome to the new website of the Labour History Project. We’re still adding things here,…

Peter Clayworth, who is writing a biography of New Zealand trade unionist Pat Hickey, tracks some of Hickey’s background through…

David Grant assesses the place Mark Briggs holds in our country’s history of radical resistance to war. In 2005 painter…

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Fighting Back, a 1949 film by Cecil Holmes. Reviewed by Dean Parker in LHP Newsletter 46. ‘The first on-the-spot film…

Kerry Taylor in LHP Newsletter 46 reviews War and Class: The Diary of Jack McCullough edited by Melanie Nolan. Palmerston…

LHP Newsletter 46, June 2009 featured news on the launch of Kiwi Compañeros, the ALHG’s seminar on the Women’s Charter,…

LHP Newsletter 45, November 2009 was the first under the new banner of the Labour History Project. It also marked…

The Great 08: Blackball Coal Miners’ Strike 27 February – 13 May 1908 by Brian Wood. 230 pages. Reviewed by…

First wave feminism is the name that has become attached to the various struggles for women’s suffrage in the later…

What a great thing it is to be celebrating a union victory. The labour movement is good at celebrating our…

TUHP Newsletter 44, October 2008 featured a new Editor (Marie Russell) and a new look, after long-time editor Colin Hicks…