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W. H Oliver Humanities Research Academy - Seminar

Date: 10-6-2018
Time: 2.00pm

'Generous action' and 'ministerial muddling': Managing a Royal Navy battlecruister tour in the Dominion 1913

Gail Romano

Sunday 10 June 2.00pm 

Venue: ALEXANDER LIBRARY

Free entry, all welcome 

Gail Romano is writing her MA in History on the 1913 visit of battlecruiser HMS New Zealand to this country and what the visit can tell us about ourselves in that pre-war period. Gail is superivised by Dr David Littlewood in the Massey History Programme.

The W.H.Oliver Humanities Research Academy series of Whanganui Seminars 2018 is a partnership between the Alexander Heritage and Research Library, the Whanganui Regional Museum and Massey University's W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy. It aims to raise awareness of the presence of history in the local community as well as celebrating students embarking on careers in the rich field of New Zealand historical research.

Home and away is the theme for the 2018 seminar series.