Lyttelton is a fun and exciting place to do archaeology. I’ve been lucky enough to get to do a bit of archaeology in Lyttelton in the last few months, mainly out in the road, because of the digging that’s been … Continue reading →
A PDF copy of the April 2012 edition of the With This Ring bridal magazine.
A PDF copy of the September 2012 edition of the With This Ring bridal magazine.
A PDF copy of issue 7 of the With This Ring bridal magazine.
A PDF copy of issue 8 of the With This Ring bridal magazine.
A PDF copy of the April 2013 edition of the With This Ring bridal magazine.
A report written by Christchurch East Youth MP Beth Walters in 2016. The purpose of the report is to present the views of young people from Eastern Christchurch. More than 50 young people from Aranui High School, Linwood College and Mairehau High School were surveyed on a range of questions related to living in the East: Use one word to describe how you feel about living in the Eastside of Christchurch What do you like about living in the Eastside of Christchurch? What don't you like about your community? What do you think can be done to change it? If you had the option would you stay? The report contains raw data, themes and overall findings from the survey.
A PDF copy of issue 6 of With This Ring bridal magazine.
A PDF copy of the September 2013 edition of the With This Ring bridal magazine.
A few weeks ago, there was an interesting interview on Radio New Zealand with historian Jock Phillips, on the history of tobacco use in New Zealand. In the interview, Jock talked about the ways in which people consumed tobacco in … Continue reading →
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 12 January 2013 entitled, "From this to bliss".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 4 April 2011 entitled, "This week....".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 28 March 2011 entitled, "This week...".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 3 February 2013 entitled, "This and that...".
A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in November 2016.
An earthquake memories story from Karen Wilson, Charge Nurse Manager, Ward 10, Christchurch Hospital, titled, "This is bad".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 7 December 2012 entitled, "This too will pass...".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 19 June 2012 entitled, "Christchurch Container this Winter".
A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in December 2014.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 7 June 2011 entitled, "Finally this top is done....".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 20 January 2012 entitled, "This week I've been....".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 16 October 2012 entitled, "This is why God created dads....".
A PDF copy of pages 68-69 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Why is This Real Not That?'. Photo: Reuben Woods
He is bed maker to the dead. The pillows which he lays never rumple. The day of interment is the theatre in which he displays the mysteries of this art. Thomas Lamb 1811. Nothing in this would can be … Continue reading →
This week on the blog, a selection of chamber pots for your perusal, ranked according to my entirely objective, and not at all arbitrary, assessment of how fancy they are. This is accompanied by my very best attempt at using … Continue reading →
Continuing on from our last FAQ post, here are the answers to a few more of the questions we face regularly here in Christchurch. 1) Are you doing this for a school project? Yes, seriously. This gets asked more often … Continue reading →
People often ask what we’re learning as a result of all this post-earthquake archaeology. Quite a lot, as this blog reveals. But, to date, the blog has focused on the individual sites and/or stories – there’s not been much of … Continue reading →
This week on the blog, we delve – or dive, even (sorry, I can already tell you that this post will be filled with water puns) – into the bitter waters of the 19th century, by which I mean mineral … Continue reading →
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 12 March 2011 entitled, "In this midst of so much chaos I choose to be grateful...".
A photograph captioned, "Nobody’s trained for this, you go to your lawyer and they can’t give you an answer because they've never faced this before, so yeah, even they are scratching around trying to find out".