Heritage Talks – live and online!
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| Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W0245 |
We’re delighted to offer our popular Heritage Talks series online via Zoom and are pleased to have people tune in from around Aotearoa and worldwide!
We’ve just released many of our previous talks on our YouTube channel – tune in to enjoy lectures on topics as diverse as early Chinese restaurants in Auckland, world-leading New Zealand artists and schisms in the 19th-century feminist movement.
Explore our picks of the Heritage Talks playlist on YouTube and find out about upcoming Heritage Talks.
Heritage Talks picks
Two artists and their architects with Megan WalkerBoth were born in Europe and moved to New Zealand for love.
Both enjoyed careers lasting for decades and joined the ranks of Aotearoa’s best-known artists.
And both were uncompromising and fiercely creative women who succeeded in male-dominated industries, cementing their places in history by the force of their own talent.
Megan Walker presents the stories of painter Louise Henderson and photographer Marti Friedlander who defied odds and expectations from the earliest days of their careers.
Hardships and fortune, challenges and successes awaited the hardy and tenacious Chinese men and women who made their way to colonial New Zealand.
Chinese entrepreneurs such as Thomas Quoi, Ah Chee and John Jackson managed through sheer force of will to transcend the adversity they faced and make their name in a country that could sometimes be openly hostile to them.
Tātai whakapapa is about people and is a link to whenua, heritage, and identity. For many, it is taonga.
Broaden your understanding of whakapapa research with our Poukōkiri Rangahau Māori (senior Māori research librarians), Raniera Kingi and Xavier Forsman.
Nau mai, haere mai, karawhiti mai rā e.
The highly contentious Contagious Diseases Act 1869 provoked a fierce battle among the three principal feminist organisations of Auckland at the time.
The polarising piece of legislation addressed the issue of venereal diseases and was condemned by some feminists and praised by others.
This video discusses the personalities and ideologies that came to blows in this debate, and examines a question that is still relevant today – is there a right way to be a feminist?
In the late 19th century, Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant were home to a thriving, tight-knit Jewish community.
Tāmaki Makaurau’s early Jewish residents were a who’s who of brewers, hoteliers, politicians, merchants and traders.
From 1840, when there were just two Jews in the Auckland area, the community grew to a fully-fledged community boasting a school, cemetery and grand synagogue.
Upcoming Heritage Talks
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| Group of goldseekers on a hilllside near Thames. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 589-411. |
In the next couple of months, we’re hosting plenty of exciting Heritage Talks on subjects such as the Thames gold rush, the history of steam power from antiquity to the present, and a biography of architect Roy Lippincott.
These events are free to attend. Visit our website to see the full list of upcoming events and register.
The Goldrush to Thames with Kae Lewis – Wednesday 11 May, 12pm-1pm
Historical goldrush expert Kae Lewis presents an in-depth talk about the men who travelled from across the world to try their luck on the goldfields of Thames.
Find out who struck gold, where and how they found it and discover the difficulties they faced turning quartz to cash.
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| Alison Clock designed by Roy Lipincott. Victoria Wharf, Devonport. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections D-GW-0021 |
Who’s responsible for the ponga fronds, flax seedpods, kaka, kea, kauri snails and Māori motifs found on the facades of buildings around Auckland?
You can thank American architect Roy Lipincott for a collection of curious landmarks that sprang up in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s, including the clock tower pictured above.
You can thank American architect Roy Lipincott for a collection of curious landmarks that sprang up in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s, including the clock tower pictured above.
Heron of Alexandria built a working steam engine 1800 years before we invented steam locomotives.
One hundred years ago, Dr A. Evan Lewis' grandfather built a steam engine to the ancient Greek engineer’s 2000-year-old design, right here in Auckland.
Evan inherited this model from his grandfather and has restored it to its former glory.
Now a respected engineer in his own right, in this talk Evan details how steam power tech has developed from antiquity to modern times.
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