Tooth and Veil:
The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse, Massey
University Press
, published by
Massey University Press.
The award was announced at
the Labour History Project AGM on Tuesday 20
July.
Named for the late historian Herbert Roth, the
award is presented annually to the work published in the
previous calendar year that best depicts the history of work
and resistance in New Zealand.
The award was judged
this year by Cybèle Locke, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Grace
Millar, and Ross Webb
‘On 29 March 1974, nurses from
all over the country marched on parliament and won a
substantial pay increase. This protest is at the centre of
The viewing that got me through 2020
Before Covid, our entertainment diet was rich in psychological thrillers, police procedurals, whodunits and Scandi noirs. But with our world hurtling towards pandemic hell in a handbasket, I hungered instead to see how the story might look if we engaged a team of hopeful writers.
It would have been mid-April in Lockdown when I realised my tastes in what I wanted to watch and read had changed. My husband, remote in hand, was suggesting we dive into a Netflix series he’d read about, briefly describing the premise, reeling off names of actors and where we’d seen them before. From the other end of the couch I had just the one question, delivered in a flat voice. “Does a lady get raped? Then no.”