Celebrate Local History Month with Hutt City Libraries

Kylie from Hutt City Libraries

Join Hutt City Libraries to celebrate Local History Month during September 2017. All talks and workshops are FREE.

Findmypast Workshop
War Memorial Library - Tuesday 12 September, 4pm-5:30pm
Get started researching your family history and learn how to navigate Findmypast with our Family History Specialist, Tricia Meehan. Findmypast is particularly good for researching English parish records and Irish records and if you have convict ancestors you may even find their photos!
Spaces are limited. Email LibrariesEvents@huttcity.govt.nz to register.

Different Ethics: dodgy dealings and curious values of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Petone Library - Saturday 16 September, 11.30am
Join us for a talk on Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the New Zealand Company settlements in Petone and Wellington. Widely published historian Matthew Wright explores the dodgy dealings and curious values of Wakefield and his business associates as they tried to set up a private-enterprise colony in New Zealand.

British Newspaper Archive Workshop
Wainuiomata Library - Tuesday 26 September, 2pm-3:30pm
Want to search for historical facts or family history in newspapers? Learn how the British Newspaper Archive can help your research with our Family History Specialist, Tricia Meehan.
Spaces are limited. Email LibrariesEvents@huttcity.govt.nz to register.

Market Gardening in Lower Hutt
Naenae Library - Wednesday 27 September, 1pm-2pm
Lower Hutt was once a major source of fruit and vegetables for the Wellington Region. Many of the gardens were in Naenae and Taita but in the 1940s the gardens were taken for state housing. Join our Local History Specialist Clark Stiles for a talk looking at how these changes affected the area.

From Battlefield to Recuperation: a soldier’s story
War Memorial Library - Friday 29 September, 10am-12pm
Join SeniorNet for a talk by Trevor Rowntree on a soldier’s passage through the military medical system during WWI.