Bronwyn Labrum

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

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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. [2]

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. [5] [4] From 2016 she was the head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa. [6] She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects. [2] In December 2020 she was appointed Director of the Whanganui Regional Museum, to start in February 2021. [2]

Labrum's 2015 book Real Modern: Everyday New Zealandin the 1950s and 1960s was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. [5]

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References

  1. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (13 September 2018). "Bronwyn Labrum: biography and interview". Te Papa. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Whanganui Regional Museum appoints Dr Bronwyn Labrum as new director". Whanganui Chronicle. 17 December 2020. Archived from the original on 16 December 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  3. Labrum, Bronwyn (1990). Gender and lunacy : a study of women patients at the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, 1870-1910 (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/8497.
  4. 1 2 White, Tina (14 October 2016). "Social history down to the sweetest detail". Stuff. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  5. 1 2 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (29 January 2016). "Recent title: Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s". Te Papa. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  6. "Dr Bronwyn Labrum – Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. 7 May 2019. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  7. "Aotearoa Reads Details". Read NZ. 11 September 2015. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  8. Morning (16 September 2018). "Sandra Coney and Bronwyn Labrum: Women Now". RNZ. Retrieved 13 November 2019.