Resources that the Labour History Project, it’s members, and the wider public have created.
LHP Lectures, Talks, Symposiums
- Rona Bailey Memorial Lectures
- AGM Talks
- 2023 Symposium: Campaigning in a Cost-of-Living Crisis – Then and Now
- 2021 Symposium: From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980s
- 2008 Symposium: 1968 – Year of Revolution?
Another World is Possible – Essay Competition
In 1913, Walter Nash ran an Essay competition with a prize of £5.
100 years later the Labour History project took this inspiration and in 2013 and 2015 ran an essay competition on the theme ‘Another World is Possible’.
Books
- Book Launch: Women Will Rise!
Launch of Women Will Rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter, edited by Gay Simpkin and Marie Russell and published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa. - Pete Lusk, You Don’t Scab & You Don’t Crawl: A Tribute to Bobby Closs
Pete Lusk, an LHP member in Westport, has kindly made his illustrated biography of West Coast miner Bobby Closs available to download.
New Zealand Workers on Screen
Russell Campbell, Adjunct Professor of Film at VUW and LHP Treasurer has compiled an incredibly comprehensive list of films and TV programmes featuring New Zealanders at work. Some are available to view online on youtube.com and NZ on Screen, the rest can reviewed at the media library at Nga Taonga Sound & Vision in Wellington.
- New Zealand Workers On Screen: Part 1 – On the Job
- New Zealand Workers on Screen: Part 2 – Industrial Disputes and Trade Union History
1913 Strike
The Labour History Project, and other organisations, marked the centenary of the 1913 great strike by creating resources to make the story and history more accessible.
Labour Archives
The Labour History Project does not collect or store labour-related archives.
However we are happy to provide advice on who might best help with your collections, or which institutions might take them. Read More