2021
Seminar: ‘From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980s’
Bert Roth Award: Noel O’Hare, Tooth and Veil: The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse, Massey University Press, 2020. Runner-up Mark Derby, Rock College: An Unofficial history of Mt Eden Prison, Massey University Press, 2020.
Talk: Rebecca Macfie editor of Helen Kelly: Her Life
2020
Bert Roth Award: Winner Jared Davidson, Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920, Otago, 2019, Runner-up Tony Sutorius, Helen Kelly – Together.
Talk: Malcolm McKinnon, Cybèle Locke, and Sam Orchard, Politics in a Time of Crisis (LHP AGM)
2019
Bert Roth Award: Winner: David Haines and Jonathan West, ‘Crew Cultures in the Tasman World’ in Francis Steele, ed., New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books). Runner-up: Caren Wilton, My Body My Business: NZ Sex Workers in an Era of Change (Dunedin: Otago University Press)
Talk: Ross Webb and Caren Wilton, Wellington Museum (LHP AGM)
Seventh Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: Dean Parker
Themed Bulletin: Winning Ways
2018
Bert Roth Award: Winner: A Striking Truth, Helen McNeil, Cloud Ink Press. Runner-up: These Two Hands: a memoir, Renée, Mākaro Press
Talk: Campaigns for Wage Justice, Wellington Museum (LHP AGM)
Themed Bulletin: Pay Equity and Equal Employment Opportunity
2017
Conference: Dissent and the First World War, with the Stout Centre
Sixth Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: Therese O’Connell
Bert Roth Award: Poi E: The Story of our Song, directed by Tearepa Kahi, 2016
Talk: A Tale of Two Richards and a Therese: Labour 100 Archiving Project by Emma Jean Kelly (LHP AGM)
Inaugural Themed Bulletin: Precarious Work
2016
Emma Jean Kelly appointed as the Labour 100 archivist for 2017
Seminar: People’s History Symposium – Precarious Work, Past, Present and Future, Wellington Museum with the National Library
Talk: Renters Resisting, Wellington Museum (LHP AGM)
Bert Roth Award: Pangaru in the City, Melissa Williams, Bridget Williams Books, 2015
2015
Seminar: People’s History Symposium – Education in Aotearoa New Zealand – for freedom or conformity?, Wellington Museum with the National Library
Fifth Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: Graeme Clark
Another World is Possible Essay Competition: Adam Driver (Over 19) and Alexandra Orr (Under 19)
Bert Roth Award: Nicholas Hoare ‘Imperial Dissenters: Anti-Colonial Voices in New Zealand, 1883-1945’, MA, Victoria University of Wellington.
LHP present at the ‘Disrupting the Narrative/Remember the Peacemakers’ exhibition, Wellington
2014
Seminar: People’s History Symposium – Immigrant Workers, Wellington Museum and the National Library
Inaugural Bert Roth Award: Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and why 29 Men died, Rebecca Macfie, Awa Press, 2013
Fifth Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: Robert Consedine
Talk: Families of the 1951 Lockout by Grace Millar, Wellington Museum (LHP AGM)
2013
Bert Roth Award for Labour History created
LHP Newsletter is replaced by the LHP Bulletin
Centennial: 1913 Strike parade, talks, People’s History symposium, exhibition
Publication: 1913 Strike: War on the Wharves walk booklet
Talk: Health, Safety, and ACC by Hazel Armstrong, Wellington Museum (LHP AGM)
Another World is Possible Essay Competition: Ciaran Doolin (winner), Jane Blaikie (runner-up) and Daisy Cadigan (Under 18)
2012
Centennial: Remember Waihī – 1912 Strike conference, march and other events, with ALHG
Talk: Helen Kelly, Wellington City Library (LHP AGM)
2011
Third Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: Marianne Schultz
Seminar: What’s Left? (ALHP)
2010
Seminar: Globalisation and Labour in the Pacific: Re-evaluating the 1890 Maritime Strike, with ALHG and others
Seminar: Archives and Industry: Perspectives from Labour History, with ARANZ
Talk: David Grant, Wellington City Library (LHP AGM)
2009
Seminar: Working Women’s Charter (ALHP)
Second Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: Dick Scott
Publication: Kiwi Companeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War, Mark Derby (ed.) in association with the LHP, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
2008
The TUHP changes its name to the Labour History Project (LHP)
The Auckland Labour History Group (ALHG) is formed
Centennial: Blackball ’08 Centennial, including talks, parades, theatre and other events, Blackball
Seminar: Blackball ’08: Wellington
Seminar: 1968 – Year of Revolution?
Publication: Blood on the Coal: The Origins and Future of New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Scheme, Hazel Armstrong, Trade Union History Project, Wellington
2007
Inaugural Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture: https://lhp.org.nz/2007/11/27/inaugural-rona-bailey-memorial-lecture-2007-robert-reid-looking-backwards-looking-forwards/Robert Reid
Seminar: The NZ Federation of Labour, 1937-1987 with the CTU
2006
Seminar: New Zealand’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Wellington
Exhibition: Strike 1913: War on the Wharves, exhibition at the Museum of Wellington City and Sea
Publication: Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, Melanie Nolan (ed.), Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
Publication: Words at Work: An annotated bibliography of New Zealand trade union literature, Paul Corliss, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
2005
Seminar: Working People, Trade Unions and the Vietnam War
2004
Publication: The Big Blue: snapshots of the 1951 waterfront lockout, David Grant (editor), Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
2003
Conference: The 1913 Strike 100 Years On: a laboratory or a battleground of democracy?
2001
Conference: Lockout ’51: fifty years on
Exhibition: 1951: lockout, strike, confrontation, in association with New Zealand Film Archive, commemorating the 1951 waterfront lockout and displayed at venues in Wellington, Auckland, Palmerston North and Dunedin
Film/Video: Gaylene Preston and John Bates: Archival videos recording the proceedings of the Lockout ’51 conference
1999
Film/Video: Gaylene Preston: $5,000 grant to film documentary on Trade Union Women’s Choir Choir, Choir, Pants on Fire, plus promotional CD
1998
Seminar: Celebration to Mark the 100th Anniversary of Paul Robeson’s Birth
Publication: She Dared to Speak: Connie Birchfield’s story, Maureen Birchfield, University of Otago Press, Dunedin
Film/Video: Gaylene Preston: archival video on seminar to commemorate the life of Max Bollinger
1997
Seminar: Fifty Years of Struggle: the story of equal pay
Publication: Worker Holidays in New Zealand: a brief history, TUHP, Wellington
Publication: To Labour with the State: the Fiji Public Service Association, Jacqueline Leckie, University of Otago Press, Dunedin
Publication: Fifty Years of Struggle: the story of equal pay, TUHP, Wellington
Film/Video: Spiral Productions: $3,000 grant for documentary film on life of Irahapeti Ramsden, Something for My Grandchildren to Hold
1996
Seminar: The PSA and the Lewin Years: personalities, influences and events
Publication: Disaster at Brunner: the coalmine tragedy at Brunnerton, New Zealand, Brian Wood, self-published, Greymouth
1996
Seminar: A Commemoration of Max Bollinger’s Life
1995
Seminar: Trade Unionism in the Era of Fintan Patrick Walsh
Film/Video: Vanguard Films and Gerd Polhman: $2,000 grant to transfer six documentary films on New Zealand labour history onto video
1994
Seminar: The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act
Publication: Pioneering New Zealand Labour History: essays in honour of Bert Roth, Pat Walsh (editor), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
Publication: Trade Unions, Work and Society: the centenary of the arbitration system, Pat Walsh (editor), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
Publication: Working Class Son: my fight against capitalism and war, Ron Smith, self-published, Wellington
1993
Seminar: Dissenting New Zealand (featuring Rona Bailey)
Exhibition: Te Keiti E Mahi Ai (What Katy Did): Te Wahine Te Mahi (Women and Work) 1880s-1940s photographic exhibition at Wellington City Art Gallery and at Porirua, Auckland and Canterbury Public Libraries
Publication: From Wheelbarrow to Carryall: a story of some Public Works communities in New Zealand 1904-1956, Charles M. Herbert, TUHP, Wellington
1992
Seminar: Bert Roth’s Contribution to Labour History
Publication: Through the Mill and Other Stories (2nd edition), Frank Collins, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
1991
Publication: Culture and the Labour Movement: essays in New Zealand labour history, John Martin and Kerry Taylor (editors), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
Publication: Born of Hunger, Pain and Strife: 5o years of struggle against unemployment in New Zealand, Auckland Unemployed Rights Centre, Auckland
1990
Conference: Culture and the Labour Movement (including a re-creation of the first Labour Day Parade in October 1890, an art exhibition and a film festival)
Exhibition: Art and Organised Labour, Wellington City Art Gallery (toured other centres subsequently)
Seminar: Development of Trade Unionism in New Zealand
Publication: Days of Action, Bert Roth, TUHP, Wellington
Publication: New Zealand Working People 1890-1990, Steven Eldred-Grigg, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
Publication: The Forgotten Worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth century New Zealand, John Martin, Allen and Unwin, Wellington
Film/Video: Shattered Dreams: video produced by Francis Wevers and Dean Parker dealing with New Zealand industrial history 1946-51 (with the help of two grants from the Short Film Fund of the New Zealand Film Commission)
1989
Publication: Strike: trouble at t’mill (story of the 1899 Petone woollen workers’ strike), Barbara Fill, GP Books, Wellington
1988
Exhibition: Woollen Workers’ Strike of 1899, Petone Settlers Museum
Seminar: Recording Oral History
Publication: Annotated Guide to the Archives of the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1937-1988, Cathy Marr (collator and editor), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
Publication: The Lucifer: a story of industrial conflict in New Zealand in the 1930s, Dave Welch, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North
1987
Film/Video: Paul Chalmers: $100 grant to videotape long-time union leader and activist Peter Purdue
Trade Union History Project (TUHP) founded