News and Features

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

The website Canterbury's King James Bible launched in December 2012 to disseminate and support research into UC's Special Collections.

Canterbury Historical Association - next meeting: March 2012 Lectures will take place in South Arts Lecture Theatre A5. For anybody who does not know where the lecture block is, it can be found in section H5 of the printable map
Enquiries regarding CHA membership should be addressed to the Secretary, David Monger.

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

Rosemary Baird, History postgrad. student, came third in the recent 'PhD in 3' competition held during postgraduate month. Hers was the top Arts presentation and she won $1,000 worth of conference support.