Katherine gets Jilly Cooper-related nostalgia for this 80s "bonkbuster", a saucy tale of media moguls in the English countryside.
Tuakiri Investigates: Local Lives Lived! – a Family History Month exhibition
Katherine gives us a sneak peek at some of the local characters featured in August's Local Lives Lived exhibition. The exhibition runs 6-31 August 2024 at Tūranga.
Mrs Godley spills the tea
Was Charlotte Godley the Lady Whistledown of early Christchurch? She certainly was an excellent (and gossipy) writer.
Victorian visitors to Christchurch: A horny lawyer and a drunken nuisance
Katherine investigates the bad behaviour of some visiting Victorians to 19th century Christchurch.
‘All our stock of young ladies’ – The Misses Townsend
Katherine looks at the matches made by the six Townsend sisters of Lyttelton, 19th century settlers to Canterbury.
QUIZ: The Twelve (slightly tenuous) Days of Christmas
Work your way through the 12 local history questions of this quiz loosely based on the famous Christmas song.
The young men of Singleton House
Kat looks at the lives and fortunes of four young 19th century men who at one point shared a home in Lyttelton.
Jessie MacKay: “Poet and crusader”
Originally from Scotland, Jessie Mackay was a teacher, poet, journalist and "passionate feminist" who campaigned for women's suffrage.
The Henderson Sisters: suffragists, missionaries and Presbyterians
The story of the Henderson sisters shows how the women’s suffrage movement was associated with the temperance movement, and religion.
Extra extra! Read all about it! British Newspaper Archives
Digitised newspaper archives are The Best. They make history and bygone society easily accessible to us, and are generally much less temperamental than microfilm readers. While PapersPast (NZ) and Trove (Australia) are free, here at Christchurch City Libraries we subscribe to a whole bunch of other newspaper archives for you. Recently we have subscribed to…
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