HeritageTalks at Auckland Central Library: Wed 23 Nov 12pm-1pm
HeritageTalks: The passing of the pioneers: the obituaries of the Old Colonists and a changing country with Liam Appleton
Wednesday 23 November 12pm-1pm
Whare Wānanga, L2 Central City Library , 44-46 Lorne Street, Auckland City Centre
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Throughout the late 19th and early-mid 20th-Centuries, New Zealand newspaper readers could regularly find the stories of early settlers memorialised in extended obituaries, a genre reserved for the commemoration of “Old Colonists”.
These columns recorded both the ordinary and remarkable individuals who collectively comprised the foundational generation of settlers. Yet the category of Old Colonist clearly designated a distinction between present generations and the gradually fading frontier experiences of these foundational figures.
In this HeritageTalk, Research Librarian Liam Appleton asks what these efforts to remember the Old Colonists might tell us about Pakeha New Zealanders understanding of themselves amidst an increasingly developing and urbanised country.
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