Tag: Public Lectures

Reconnect:experience heritage – The Friday Forum: Friday 18th October 2013 (Organised By NZHPT)

The NZHPT has organised a Friday Forum: Heritage as part of the CCC  Reconnect:experience heritage  weekend event.
The times, presenters, subjects covered etc see below ...

Friday Forum: Heritage
Date: Friday 18th October 2013
Venue: Christchurch City Council, 53 Hereford Street, Christchurch (more…)

Lectures Series Now Finished: Life On The Goldfields Lectures Oct 11, 18 and 25 (all Thursdays) held in both Alexandra and Cromwell

Life On The Goldfields:  A Rotary Public Lecture Series.

Lecture 1: Politics
Populism, parochialism and public works: politics and public affairs on the Dunstan Goldfields, 1862-1882
11th October

Lecture 2: Land
A peculiar three-cornered contest:' the struggle among run holders, gold miners, and farmers for the control of land on the goldfields
18th October

Lecture 3: Society
A transformative moment and a structured crowd: social structure, ethnicity and religion on the Otago Goldfields.  Some steps toward a fresh assessment
25th October (more…)