News and Features

History Research Seminar - Claire Le Couteur (UC History) will speak to the seminar at 1pm, 16 May in Hist311 on 'A Battle for Honesty and Safety in Medicine: Medical Men fight back at patent ‘cures’ for Goitre in New Zealand in the Twentieth Century' Further details are available here.

Canterbury Historical Association - Professor David Norton (Victoria University of Wellington) will speak on “A Perfect Work”: From Tyndale to the King James Bible to the Authorised Version. The lecture will take place on 12 June; location & time TBA. Further details are available at the CHA website.

The Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library is now available to buy. This exciting volume, co-edited by Chris Jones (UC History), explores a selection of the more fascinating and unusual items in the UC collection.

Annual History Awards Ceremony, 7 December 2011
Around 100 staff, students, friends and relatives attended the Annual History Awards Ceremony at the Undercroft on 7 December, where 26 students and recently retired colleagues, Professor Geoff Rice and Dr Chris Connolly, were honoured for their achievements and contributions. See the attached PDF for a full list of award recipients and selected photographs of the occasion.
History Awards (PDF, 480KB)

The website Canterbury's King James Bible launched in December 2011 to disseminate and support research into UC's Special Collections.

There are several History scholarships and prizes available (downloads as WORD doc).