AHI Summer Research Scholarships

 

Research Articles

 

The Rise of Professional Theatre in Auckland

The Rise of Professional Theatre in Auckland

by Anna McCardle*
This first article will consider the rise of professional theatre in late 1960s to early 1970s Auckland. I will track the progress of how a national call for professionalisation in New Zealand theatre set the wheels of change in motion here, resulting in the emergence of Auckland professional theatre companies like Mercury Theatre and Theatre Corporate.

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1940s Fashion in Auckland, New Zealand

Part Three 1940s Fashion in Auckland, New ZealandPart One 1930s Fashion in Auckland, New ZealandPart Two 1930s Fashion in Auckland, New Zealandby Caitlin Kilpatrick* “A bewildered follower of fashion might well ask, “What on earth have they in store for us next?” This...

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1930s Fashion in Auckland, New Zealand

Part Two 1930s Fashion in Auckland, New ZealandPart One 1930s Fashion in Auckland, New ZealandPart Three 1940s Fashion in Auckland, New Zealandby Caitlin Kilpatrick* “It is always being dinned into our ears that New Zealand women are among the worst dressed in the...

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1920s Fashion in Auckland, New Zealand

1920s Fashion in Auckland, New Zealand

by Caitlin Kilpatrick*
“When, in future years, some energetic historian sets out to write the last word on the evolution of the world’s fashions, he or she as the case may be – probably he – will need to ponder seriously over Spring 1927.”

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Treatment of our Lunatics: The Lunatics Act of 1868

Part Four Treatment of our Lunatics: The Lunatics Act of 1868Part One Prisoners to Patients – the Pre-Asylum State of Mental Health Care in AucklandPart Two A Work of Art: Constructing the Asylum at the WhauPart Three Wide Plains and Padded Cells: The Anatomy of an...

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Wide Plains and Padded Cells: The Anatomy of an Asylum

Part Three Wide Plains and Padded Cells: The Anatomy of an AsylumPart One Prisoners to Patients – the Pre-Asylum State of Mental Health Care in AucklandPart Two A Work of Art: Constructing the Asylum at the WhauPart Four Treatment of our Lunatics: The Lunatics Act of...

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A Work of Art: Constructing the Asylum at the Whau

Part Two A Work of Art: Constructing the Asylum at the WhauPart One Prisoners to Patients – the Pre-Asylum State of Mental Health Care in AucklandPart Three Wide Plains and Padded Cells: The Anatomy of an AsylumPart Four Treatment of our Lunatics: The Lunatics Act of...

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