AHI Summer Research Scholarships
Research Articles
“If You Would Be an Actress”: Auckland Women’s Personal Experiences of the Pressures of an Acting Career
Part Five “If You Would Be an Actress”: Auckland Women’s Personal Experiences of the Pressures of an Acting CareerPart One The Rise of Professional Theatre in AucklandPart Two Auckland Acting Women’s Experiences within Early Professional Theatre CompaniesPart Three...
Feminist Theatre Takes the Stage in 1980s Auckland
Part Four Feminist Theatre Takes the Stage in 1980s AucklandPart One The Rise of Professional Theatre in AucklandPart Two Auckland Acting Women’s Experiences within Early Professional Theatre CompaniesPart Three Cultural Conflicts and Evolutions in Late 1960s-1980s...
Cultural Conflicts and Evolutions in Late 1960s-1980s Auckland Theatre
Part Three Cultural Conflicts and Evolutions in Late 1960s-1980s Auckland TheatrePart One The Rise of Professional Theatre in AucklandPart Two Auckland Acting Women’s Experiences within Early Professional Theatre CompaniesPart Four Feminist Theatre Takes the Stage in...
Auckland Acting Women’s Experiences within Early Professional Theatre Companies
Part Two Auckland Acting Women’s Experiences within Early Professional Theatre CompaniesPart One The Rise of Professional Theatre in AucklandPart Three Cultural Conflicts and Evolutions in Late 1960s-1980s Auckland TheatrePart Four Feminist Theatre Takes the Stage in...
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.
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...
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...
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.”
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...
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...
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...
Prisoners to Patients – the Pre-Asylum State of Mental Health Care in Auckland
by Sasha Finer*
“A glance at the report of the inquest will show the evil of committing people of diseased mind to either the gaol or hospital. If any one ever required special treatment – medical, hygienic, or domestic – it is the lunatic.”