Video on Primary Sources

Some core resources online include:

• DigitalNZ This links to over 30 million digital items from many institutions
• Christchurch City Libraries' Digital Collection
• NZ Onscreen's Christchurch Collection. Films, newsreels and documentaries online
• Archives New Zealand Christchurch Gallery
• NZResearch.org.nz  For NZ research papers, particularly theses
• Newspaper articles and indexes-historic and current. See the entries for The Press on our newspapers page. 
• NZ Magazine articles. Index New Zealand is a good place to start.

This assignment requires you to analyse a source from the Macmillan Brown Library in your investigation of the development of the city, Christchurch.

We suggest you try the following approach:

1. Identify the topic you would like to research.  If you are not sure, we have some suggested topics below, with links to some source material
2. Look for secondary literature to give you background context.  Use the library catalogue and the web to find this material
3. Search Kā Kohika for any related archives. If you do not find any relevant material, contact the Macmillan Brown Library
4. Go back to your secondary sources to get more context, and to help you re-read your primary source

Books and articles

• Ngāi Tahu : a migration history : the Carrington text
• Southern capital : Christchurch : towards a city biography, 1850-2000
• Naughton, H. (2009). "Re-inscribing the urban abject: Ngai Tahu and the Gothic Revival." New Zealand Geographer 65(1), 48-58.

Web resources

• Matapopore Grand Narratives.  "A narrative of Ngāi Tahu values, customs, and traditions" in the context of Christchurch.
• Matapopore Urban Design Guide. 
• Ngai Tahu website
• Search the Ngā Tahu Atlas from Ngāi Tahu's Kā Huru Manu website. As well as providing information on over 1000 place names and the original 'Māori land allocations' which you can search by keyword or by zooming in on the atlas, it describes Ngāi Tahu's traditional travel routes, provides background to the cultural mapping project from the Ngāi Tahu Claim onwards, and biographies of those who led the project.
• Ti Kouka Whenua

Emergence of the modern city: Colonisation/Canterbury Settlement/Gothic Christchurch/19th early 20th century

Archives

• MB 1418 Armson Collins collection, item 161511 photograph album

Books

• Christchurch Changing: An Ilustrated History. / by Geoffrey Rice

Web resources

• Settlers, Squatters and Surveyors: Shaping the Canterbury Settlement, 1848-1851: from Archives New Zealand

Flaneur/Walking around campus UC Campus

Archives

• MB 1105, item 5107 Aerial photograph of  Ilam campus, 1940
• MB 1859, Roland Stead, Ilam Homestead Photographs

Web resources

• UC's move to Ilam: a website about the development of the Ilam campus
• Learning By Design: a website about the history of Canterbury College buildings 

Canta Magazine

Looking at the City

Books

• Meet me in the Square: Christchurch 1983-1987
• The Red Bus diary

For a list of photographic works on Christchurch, look at this subject heading in the catalogue: Christchurch (N.Z.) -Pictorial works.

Web resource

• The High Street Project   is a "collection of stories about the people and places that made up High Street" before the earthquakes.

The Macmillan Brown Library has a wide range of books on Christchurch suburbs. Search the catalogue using the name of the suburb and the word  Christchurch.

Some books that include a discussion on suburban growth include:

• The evolution of a city : the story of the growth of the city and suburbs of Christchurch...1850 to 1903 (1948).
• Christchurch Changing: an Illustrated History. (2008). This includes a section on the suburban city from 1960-1979.
• High status residential areas in Christchurch : structure and structural change, 1878 to 1973  (MA Thesis). (1975).
   

Council planning publications.

The Macmillan Brown Library has some interesting City Council planning publications. Many can be found using these search terms: City planning Christchurch and they include City of Christchurch residential urban renewal report. (1972)];  Christchurch development (1968); The city plan review: a statement of planning objectives and policies for the 1978 review of the Christchurch City District Scheme…(1977).

New Brighton:

Archives

• MB1418, item 31575 , Proposed Saltwater Swimming Baths New Brighton
• MB 902, item 147000, New Brighton Cafe and Tea Rooms.

Books

Search the library's catalogue using the  keywords new brighton christchurch.  A couple of useful books include:

• Gods and little fishes : a boy and a beach 
• New Brighton, New Zealand : Canterbury's playground

Also look at Christchurch City Libraries' bibliography of local history resources on Christchurch. The Macmillan Brown Library has most of the books listed in this.

Web Resource

Christchurch City Council's  New Brighton Centre Master Plan

Sumner

The Spur, Sumner

Books and reports etc

• Christchurch changing: An illustrated history.  DU 441 .C5 .R496 2008 Has a chapter on suburbs which includes transport information- it’s a nice overview.
• Old Christchurch in picture and story / by Johannes C. Andersen. DU 441 .C5 .A544 1949a For early transport.
• The estuary of Christchurch : a history of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary, its communities, clubs, controversies and contributions : companion to 'Beyond the city' and Lake Ellesmere to Te Pirita' / by Sarah E.W. Penney. For early transport

Other books

Start with a subject keyword search urban transportation Christchurch, you could then look broader to Christchurch transport* or Christchurch traffic

Suburban development and transport. Suburban histories will include material on transport. Some examples include

• Sumner to Ferrymead: A Christchurch History DU 436 .C3 .D479  Includes information on tram services
• Beyond the City: The Land and its People DU 441 .C5 .P413  Riccarton, Waimairi, Papanui. Has sections on several road boards

Also try the keyword search  Christchurch suburb*

Tramways Do a subject keyword search on street railroads christchurch

Council Planning documents

Start with a keyword search on Christchurch city council planning  . We hold some earlier City Plans and associated documents and the most recent is available online. The City Plans include maps

Online resources

• See the Christchurch City Council website for their current information on transport.
• PapersPast -for historic newspaper articles.Try a simple search on Christchurch transport (using ‘exact phrase”)
• DigitalNZ. Links to a range of online resources
• Indexes to the Press For early transport

The Garden City/ Urban Planning and Nature/Dystopia

Archives

• Archives from the group Keep Christchurch Beautiful
• Best Kept Shopping Mall competition paper,  MB1715 Keep Christchurch Beautiful Campaign Records, item 63649
• Cream of Dairies competition photographs, MB1715 Keep Christchurch Beautiful Campaign Records, item 63654,
• Cream of Dairies competition papers MB 1715 Keep Christchurch Beautiful Campaign Records, item 63653
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Books on the Garden city: Some but not all of these books with garden city in their title include discussion of ChCh’s status as a Garden city

Web resource

Greening the Red Zone http://www.greeningtheredzone.nz/

Archives

We have thousands of original architectural drawings in the Macmillan Brown Library, including works by Miles Warren, Don Donnithorne, Paul Pascoe, Peter Beaven, Armson Collins and many more.  Contact Erin to discuss access.

Books

Naughton, Howard. "Re-inscribing the urban abject: Ngai Tahu and the Gothic Revival." New Zealand Geographer 65, no. 1 (April 2009): 48-58. Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2009.01147.x

The Press newspaper will be a useful source of debate on Christchurch buildings. Early copies are available online on Papers Past, later ones are available online or on microfilm, depending on the date.

Web resource

Christchurch modern: http://www.christchurchmodern.co.nz/

We have several sources written in the 1800s that describe the success or otherwise of Christchurch and the Canterbury colony. These could form a useful comparison with what the Society of Canterbury Colonists was aiming to achieve (as in the week 6 reading).

Lyttelton Times 1851-1889 on PapersPast. This newspaper is a rich source of information and includes: Journal of the week with such things as the progress of roads, land sales, NW wind;  Police report; Advertisements which include public notices including those from the Canterbury Association.

The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-1851: Being His Account of the Voyage to New Zealand  in the Charlotte Jane and the First Six Months of the Canterbury Settlement. (1951). This is a typescript of a journal held in Canterbury Museum.

Travels and adventures of an officer’s wife in India, China and New Zealand. (1864). This is also available online. It contains a detailed description of Christchurch.

Canterbury Association. Part of the Canterbury Settlement. [map] London : T.W. Saunders, [1851?] Macmillan Brown Library G 9083 .C3 .C229 Very early map of Christchurch showing the centre called Lyttelton.

If you really want to try contacting the past....

MB 705, item 79133, Psychic Research Society Scrapbook

Southern Spirits: website about the Psychic Research Society

The Christchurch Music Scene

Archives

RDU archives - large collection of archives relating to RDU radio station, including playlists, posters, promotional material, photographs and more. The collection is not full catalogued yet, as contact Erin to arrange to view items.

Magazines 

We have several music and popular culture magazines. These are a great source of information and include gigs, reviews, interviews and rants.

• Phantom: The magazine of Phantom Billstickers Ltd (2002-2004)
• Cheap thrills. (2015). Interviews with Christchurch musicians and more.
• Presto (1993-2010). Another Christchurch mag. with lots of reviews and opinion pieces.
• Opprobrium

We also have music flyers from the late '90s and early 2000s in our ephemera collection (ask at the desk for these).

Books

• Glam, punk and scorched earth policy.  First essay  "How did the punk movement manifest itself in Christchurch..."
• Hey, Bird Dog: Rockin' Christchurch 1957-62
• Stranded in Paradise: New Zealand Rock 'n' Roll 1955-1988
• Have You Checked the Children: Punk and Postpunk Music in New Zealand, 1977-1981

Web resources:

• Christchurch Music Timeline from Christchurch City Libraries and their collection of digitised 80s music posters
• The  Feb 2018 RNZ Mixtape interview in which Jim Wilson of Phantom Billstickers talks about Christchurch music in the '70s and '80s

The Macmillan Brown Library has a range of radical/protest/socialist journals published in Christchurch. Some have long runs, some have just one or two issues.

• The Repeal: Official Organ of the Passive Resisters’ Union 1913-1914 UB 342 .N5 .R425 
• Tomorrow: an independent weekly paper 1934-1940  A left wing political and literary journal
• Democrat: a monthly journal for the St. Albans elector. 1951n Socialist
• New Zealand Monthly Review 1960-1996 A leftist-Marxist journal DU 400 .N532 mo
• Dispute 1964~1968 later The New Zealander 1968   Socialist
• PYM (Progressive Youth Movement) 1969 (#1 plus a special issue) became Rag-tag rabble-rousing mickey mouse stuff  1972 (#3) There is also a video on PYM Rebels in retrospect "the political memoirs of some members of Christchurch and Wellington PYM"  1991
• Her Say: Christchurch Feminist Newspaper 1979~1882
• NAH  (Numberless Anarchist Hordes) 1985 Anarchist:
• Race, Gender, Class 1985-1992  HN 1 .R118 “Contributions which will assist understanding and radical political action in the broad areas of Maori self-determination, feminism, and socialism.”
• Left turn : publication of Solidarity. 1989 Socialist

Books

Browse these subject headings:

• sports new zealand christchurch history
• recreation areas new zealand christchurch
• sports facilities new zealand christchurch

For club histories etc do a keyword search on the name of the sport and Christchurch e.g. soccer Christchurch

Web resources

• CINCH- community information directory sports and recreation section
• Contextual Historical Overview for Christchurch City 

Edmonds Factory

Archives and Art

• MB 1894, item 23756,  Staff photograph taken outside the Edmonds Factory Building.
• Vivienne Mountfort, Sure to Rise artwork 
• MB 1418, Armson Collins architectural drawing collection, item 33930, Edmonds Factory 

Books

The legacy of Thomas Edmonds   NA 1607 .C5 .A673 no.8

Web resource

Thomas Edmonds biography from Christchurch City Libraries

Tannery/Woolston 

Books

• City of Christchurch residential urban renewal report. [1972] NA 9281 .C554 u
• New Zealand made leather: the story of the Woolston Tanneries / by D.G. Sullivan. HD 9779 .S949

Christchurch Gas, Coal and Coke Company / Christchurch Gas Works 

Search the catalogue using the keywords Christchurch gas coal

Other resources on industry in Christchurch

• Books: browse the catalogue using the subject heading Industries--New Zealand--Christchurch
• Online resources: start with Digital NZ  
• Street directories are useful to trace changes in businesses or residences in an area. Ask a staff member for details of what's available.
• Newspaper articles. Check out our guide to local newspapers and their indexes or ask for help.

Archives

• MB 145, item 78809 Refugee Emergency Committee Minutebook : committee to settle refugees in Christchurch after WWII
• Refugee and New Migrant Forum records, 1998-2002 : Minutes and other records.

Deprivation Index This shows the economic status of different areas. 

Urban Renewal/ The transitional City: the mobile city: soft, fluid and non-spaces

Web Resources

• Rebuild Christchurch 
• Otakaro Ltd "delivering Crown-led anchor projects and precincts in Christchurch  
• New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities: http://sustainablecities.org.nz/
• Gapfiller http://www.gapfiller.org.nz/
• Greening the Rubble http://greeningtherubble.org.nz/wp/

Books and Journal Articles

• Richard Florida , Charlotta Mellander & Peter J. Rentfrow (2013) “The Happiness of Cities”, Regional Studies, 47:4, 613-627
• Christchurch : the transitional city, Pt. IV / [edited by Barnaby Bennett, Eugenio Boidi, Irene Boles ; Wellington, New Zealand : Freerange Press, 2012. Bib#: 1942427
• Once in a lifetime : city-building after disaster in Christchurch / edited by Barnaby Bennett, James Dann, Emma Johnson and Ryan Reynold. Christchurch : Freerange Press, 2014. Bib#: 2040808

Archives

MB 1957, Sustainable Cities Trust Records, 1990s : a large collection of archives from a Christchurch based independent agency working to catalyse  sustainable urban development.  Contact Erin to arrange access

Web resources

• Christchurch Central Development Unit:
• Greater Christchurch development strategy: http://www.greaterchristchurch.org.nz/
• New Zealand Centre for sustainable cities: http://sustainablecities.org.nz/

These are some of the poetry, fiction and art works produced after and in response to the earthquakes. We also have many personal narratives relating to the quakes as well as a wide range of architectural, planning and other technical works.

Poetry and fiction

• Norcliffe, James. Leaving the red zone: poems from the Canterbury earthquakes.
• Barrer, Jennifer. New Zealand made after the earthquake: a sequence of poems.
• Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa. Shaken down 6.3 : poems from the second Christchurch earthquake, 22 February 2011.
• Farrell, Fiona. The broken book.
•  Bowron, Jane. Old Bucky & me: Dispatches from the Christchurch earthquake.
•  Bennett, Joe. King Rich.
• Farrell, Fiona. The villa at the edge of the Empire : one hundred ways to read a city.

 Artworks

Photographs by Tim Veling in the UC art collection:

• Banks Avenue, Avonside Residential Red Zone, Christchurch, 2014. Tennis court behind cleared estate.
•  Maling Street, Avonside Residential Red Zone, Christchurch, 2014. Demolished social housing area (facing south.)
• Lois Place, Avonside Residential Red Zone, Christchurch, 2014, Discarded chemical toilet
• Support structure 

Art in the published collection:

• The art of recovery: From chaos came creativity and hope for a broken city. (2015). DVD
• Woods, Reuben.  Painting ruins: graffiti and street art in post-earthquake Christchurch : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, University of Canterbury.     online
• Bennett, Barnaby W., editor. Christchurch : the transitional city. Pt. IV.
• Bennett, Barnaby W., editor. Once in a lifetime : city-building after disaster in Christchurch.
• Douglas, Tara. Cute : Master of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury 2013-2014.
• Bannan, Sophie. Backwater.

Children’s books

• Wilkins, Phil. Christchurch: our underground story.
• McKeever, Carol. (2011). The butterfly and the earthquake.
• Noonan, Diana. (2010). Quaky cat.
• Noonan, Diana. (2015). Quaky cat helps out.

Caroline Syddall, Research Services Librarian

Erin Kimber, UC Library Archivist

Macmillan Brown Library

Phone: +64 3 369 4499 (extn 94499)
Email: macbrown@libr.canterbury.ac.nz