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August 2024

 

Haere mai and welcome to our History & Current Events newsletter.

Find great reads and resources about wars, revolutions, and extraordinary lives all over the world - in the present day, and the past.

 

Staff List

New For You - History & Current Events - August 2024

Explore history and global issues including politics, media, climate change, racism and more.

 

New titles

History

"Iran and the Revolution" by Katouzian, Homa, 1942-
"The Christian Past That Wasn't" by Throckmorton, Warren
"This Vast Enterprise" by Fehrman, Craig
"The Two Hundred Years War" by Livingston, Michael, 1975-
"This Land Is your Land" by Gage, Beverly
"Cultural Treasures of the World"
"The Christian Past That Wasn't" by Throckmorton, Warren
More history

New Zealand history

"The Chief and the Empire" by Bingham, Eugene
"A Year at Awakino Station" by Mathisen, Jaz
"The First Anzacs" by Hulse, George
"The Good Settler" by Shaw, Richard, 1964-
"Kicking up A Storm" by Rea, Ken
"Haunted by Erewhon" by Robinson, Roger, 1939-
"A Year at Awakino Station" by Mathisen, Jaz
More NZ history

Featured topic: People with disabilities

"Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken" by Bennett, Sydney Anne
"Augmented" by Cann, Candi K.
"Mother Tongue" by Nović, Sara, 1987-
"Disability" by Turner, David M., 1972-
"Understanding Pacific Peoples Health and Wellbeing Challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand"
"In Sickness and in Health" by Mauldin, Laura, 1977-
"Augmented" by Cann, Candi K.
More titles
 

Library events

Video

Period pieces on Kanopy

Watch movies and TV series set in a range of historical periods on Kanopy with your library card.

Event

Spotlight on: How to create your family story

Jul 30th | 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Tūranga

This 2-week course is designed to help and encourage family history researchers to write the story of their ancestors. Free, bookings needed

Video

Period pieces on Kanopy

Watch movies and TV series set in a range of historical periods on Kanopy with your library card.

Event

Spotlight on: How to create your family story

Jul 30th | 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Tūranga

This 2-week course is designed to help and encourage family history researchers to write the story of their ancestors. Free, bookings needed

 

Online Resource

Power to the People

Explore this new Gale Primary Sources Archive on Counterculture, Social Movements and Alternative Press.

 
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