Kia ora koutou, nau mai! Welcome to the new website of the Labour History Project. We’re still adding things here,…
Class War in the Old West
Peter Clayworth, who is writing a biography of New Zealand trade unionist Pat Hickey, tracks some of Hickey’s background through…
Mark Briggs: flax worker, trade unionist, Red Fed, auctioneer, politician, conscientious objector, humanitarian, all round good bloke
David Grant assesses the place Mark Briggs holds in our country’s history of radical resistance to war. In 2005 painter…
LHP Bulletin 72, April 2018
Featuring a new look and a new Editor, Paul Maunder, this issue of the LHP Bulletin moved to a two-column…
Bert Roth Award for Labour History 2018
The Labour History Project awards the Bert Roth Award for labour history work – an event, a publication, a film,…
Call for papers – 2018 theme: Pay equity and equal employment opportunity
The themed edition of the November 2018 Bulletin of the LHP – Pay Equity and Equal Employment Opportunity – will…
The 1920 Chelsea sugar workers’ strike
Dairying, horticulture, gum digging, ship maintenance and building, and naval defence were the main activities for those living and working…
Fighting Back (review)
Fighting Back, a 1949 film by Cecil Holmes. Reviewed by Dean Parker in LHP Newsletter 46. ‘The first on-the-spot film…