Labour History Project (LHP) - New Zealand

14/09/2025

All Out! 1970s/1980s Strike Seminar. A seminar to mark and memorise resistance. An exciting opportunity to hear from previous generations of struggle.

All Out! 1970s/1980s Strike Seminar A seminar to mark and memorise resistance: 15 November 2025, 1-5pm. Pipitea Campus, 33 Bunny St Wellington. Hundreds of thousands of people in the 1970s and 1980s in Aotearoa New Zealand participated in strikes. Yet these strikes have mostly been overlooked. Many....

07/09/2025

Over the last few weeks we have been highlighted the winners and short listed works for the Bert Roth Award. They show the richness and strength of New Zealand Labour History and we recommend people explore the list and the nominated works.

Power to Win and To Free the World win Bert Roth Award 2025 The Bert Roth Award for Labour History, named for the late historian Herbert Roth, is presented annually by the Labour History Project. It is awarded to the work that best depicts the history of work and resistance in New Zealand published....

04/09/2025

Books about place often have substantial elements of Labour History and Tania Mace's the Near West included the history of work and resistance in an Auckland neighbourhood and was short-listed for the Bert Roth Award.

The Auckland neighbourhood of Grey Lynn has near legendary status. Sometimes referred to as ‘The People’s Republic of Grey Lynn’, history is everywhere here despite its recent gentrification.

03/09/2025

The Handlers, set in the Crown Lynn factory in the 1970s, was the only play short-listed for this year's Bert Roth Award.

The Handlers, by Alvie Poata McKree is a Māori Crown Lynn story about our most iconic mugs, and the hands that made them.

02/09/2025

Te Hau Kāinga - a substantial contribution to our understanding of the home front during World War II was short-listed for the Bert Roth Award.

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01/09/2025

Mark Derby has continued his excellent research into New Zealanders and the Spanish Civil War and his latest book was short-listed for the Bert Roth award.

Central Otago-born Doug Jolly was one of the greatest war surgeons of the twentieth century. Tireless, dedicated and courageous in his surgical work with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, his surgical manual, based on battlefield experiences close to the front line, was widely use...

31/08/2025

Katie Cooper's Rewena and Rabbit Stew: The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, provides insight into the history of domestic labour and was short-listed for the Bert Roth award.

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28/08/2025

Check out beautiful photos of resistance in today's work from the Bert Roth short list.

The 1970s saw unprecedented numbers of people take to the streets to protest against injustice and for the environment, gay rights, housing, Māori land and language, women’s rights, workers’ wages …

27/08/2025

David Williamson and Candice Harris article on migrant labour in the hotel sector documents how history can help us understand current labour struggles and was short-listed for the Bert Roth Award