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  • Inaugural Rona Bailey Lecture 2007

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Robert Reid presented the inaugural Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture - 'Looking Backwards: Looking Forwards'

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2009

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Historian and writer Dick Scott to gave the Second Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture.

    The lecture was followed by Chris Prowse and fellow musicians performing songs from his recently written musical Trouble on The Waterfront.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2011

    Te Whaea - National Dance & Drama Centre 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    In the 2011 Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture, Marianne Schultz, a PhD candidate and tutor in the History Department, University of Auckland, talked about Rona Bailey as a member of the New Dance Group. The New Dance Group played a key role in pioneering modern dance in New Zealand in the 1940s. Photos and excerpts from the documentary Dance of the Instant (2008, director Shirley Horrocks) were shown. The evening also included a live performance by students from the New Zealand School of Dance in a short reconstruction of the 1945 New Dance Group work, Sabotage in a Factory.

  • AGM 2013

    Todd Foundation Room, Museum of Wellington City and Sea 3 Jervois Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, New Zealand

    At the 2013 Labour History Project AGM Hazel Armstrong talked about Health and Safety.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2014

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    In the 2014 Rona Bailey Memorial lecture, held at Toi Whakaari, Robert Consedine talked about Project Waitangi.

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2015

    Toi Whakaari 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Graeme Clarke – What is To Be Done? In the 2015 Rona Bailey lecture, held at the Toi Whakaari, Graeme Clarke talked about where the trade union movement and socialists are at and how we got there. The lecture was based on his experiences as a trade unionist and communist for the last 40 years.… Read More »Rona Bailey Lecture 2015

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2017

    Te Whaea - National Dance & Drama Centre 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand

    Therese O’Connell is a full-time feminist who has been a unionist and social justice activist in Wellington since the early 1970s. She spoke and sung (with friends) about what still rarks her up!

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2019

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    In the 2019 Rona Bailey lecture, held at the National Library of New Zealand, Dean Parker talked about growing up in Napier, what he learnt in London from Trotskyists and Irish republicans, joining the Socialist Unity Party back in New Zealand, the formation of the NZ Writers’ Guild and its affiliation to the Federation of Labour, and the politics of writing and the writing of politics.

  • 2020 AGM

    At the 2020 AGM, the theme was 'politics in a time of crisis'. A very fitting theme for a very odd time. Malcolm McKinnon, Cybèle Locke and Sam Orchard spoke.

  • 2021 AGM

    AGM notice Refreshments provided. Wheelchair accessible. The shortlist for and winner of the Bert Roth Labour History Award will be announced, followed by Rebecca Macfie speaking on her recently published biography Helen Kelly: Her Life. Format of AGM5.30pm — Nibbles6:00pm — AGM6.30pm — AGM speaker: Rebecca Macfie About the speaker In a 32-year career in… Read More »2021 AGM

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2022

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    Serena Moran: A Workers' Initiative. The union health service, 1987 to 2022, the founding of the movement and the impact of neoliberalism on the service and patients from a nurse's perspective.

  • 2023 AGM

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    Hilary Watson and Keith Stewart shared information about the 1970s Protest Photos New Zealand project at the 2023 AGM talk. AGM Notice Come to hear the announcement of the winner of the Bert Roth Labour History Award, keynote speakers Hilary Watson and Keith Stewart sharing information about the 1970s Protest Photos New Zealand project and… Read More »2023 AGM

    Free

  • Rona Bailey Lecture 2024

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    The Labour History Project biennial Rona Bailey lecture will be given by Dr Cybèle Locke and focus on the life of Rona Bailey. Rona Bailey has been described as ‘one of the most important figures on the radical left in twentieth-century NZ.’ In this talk, Cybèle will tell stories about Rona’s lifelong grassroots activism.

  • 2024 AGM

    AGM Notice 5.15pm Event opens with food, mingling and copies of Lyndy's book for sale.6:00pm AGM of the LHP & Bert Roth Awards6.45 pm Lyndy McIntyre talk The Power of the Story Lyndy McIntyre speaks to the power of stories and how the stories of workers came together in her new book on the history… Read More »2024 AGM

  • 2025 AGM

    National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    AGM Notice Come to hear the announcement of the winner of the Bert Roth Labour History Awards and about the long (long long long long long) history of struggle for Pay Equity. 5:30pm: Doors open with refreshments provided6:00pm: AGM of the LHP & Bert Roth Awards6.45 pm: Panel about Pay Equity speakers include Linda Hill… Read More »2025 AGM

  • All out! 1970s/80s strikes seminar

    Rutherford House Pipitea Campus, 33 Bunny St, Wellington, New Zealand

    A seminar to mark and memorise resistance. 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 went on strike so they could keep up with the rising cost of living and to gain dignity and respect from employers. Strikes broke… Read More »All out! 1970s/80s strikes seminar

    $10