Bronwyn Labrum Explained

Bronwyn Labrum is a New Zealand cultural historian and author.[1]

Labrum was born and raised in Whanganui, and attended Whanganui High School.[2] She received a BA Hons and M.A. in history at Massey University,[3] and was deputy editor of the student magazine Chaff.[4] She graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2000.

Labrum worked as curator of history and textiles at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, and was an associate professor in the School of Design at Massey University as well as teaching history at the University of Waikato. From 2016 she was the head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa.[5] She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects. In December 2020 she was appointed Director of the Whanganui Regional Museum, to start in February 2021.

Labrum's 2015 book Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . Bronwyn Labrum: biography and interview . Te Papa . 13 September 2018. 13 November 2019.
  2. Web site: 17 December 2020. Whanganui Regional Museum appoints Dr Bronwyn Labrum as new director. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201216212229/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/whanganui-regional-museum-appoints-dr-bronwyn-labrum-as-new-director/CTREZB6X6IYYJFYUDZTEAI5VTQ/ . 16 December 2020 . 2020-12-20. Whanganui Chronicle. en-NZ.
  3. Labrum . Bronwyn . 1990 . Masters thesis . Gender and lunacy : a study of women patients at the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, 1870-1910 . Massey Research Online, Massey University . 10179/8497.
  4. Web site: White. Tina. 2016-10-14. Social history down to the sweetest detail. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170128154445/http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/85315605/social-history-down-to-the-sweetest-detail . 28 January 2017 . 2020-12-20. Stuff. en.
  5. Web site: Dr Bronwyn Labrum – Massey University . Massey.ac.nz . 7 May 2019 . 13 November 2019 . 21 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201021103555/https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/about-the-school/dr-bronwyn-labrum.cfm?lang=en . dead .
  6. Web site: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . Recent title: Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s . Te Papa . 29 January 2016. 13 November 2019.
  7. Web site: Aotearoa Reads Details . Read NZ . 11 September 2015 . 13 November 2019 . 13 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191113044106/https://www.read-nz.org/aotearoa-reads-details/real-modern-everyday-new-zealand-in-the-1950s-and-1960s . dead .
  8. Web site: Morning . Sandra Coney and Bronwyn Labrum: Women Now . RNZ . 16 September 2018 . 13 November 2019.

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