Notes on Contributors

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 30, 1 January 1997, Page 4

Notes on Contributors

Mark Bland graduated from Victoria University before completing a doctorate at Oxford. He works on the printing house of John Windet and William Stansby, the circulation of literary documents in manuscript and print before 1640, and the textual and bibliographical problems involved in editing Ben Jonson. He has been visiting fellow or professor at several North American institutions and is currently Ringler Fellow at the Huntington Library. Brian Byrne is the author of The Riddle of the Kaipara (1986) and Wing of the Manukau (1991). He is currently preparing a history of the Kaipara between 1770 and 1875.

Jocelyn Chisholm, who contributes the section on the provenance of the Charles Poynter journal to the article by A.G.E. Jones, is a librarian and researcher of Wellington. Janet Davidson has carried out archaeological research in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She is the author of The Prehistory of New Zealand (new ed., 1987) and numerous scholarly and popular articles.

Margot Fry completed her MA thesis on the history of the National Film Unit in 1996, and is the 1997 National Library Fellow. She has recently been converting her thesis into a publication with the assistance of a grant from the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. Ray Grover worked at the Turnbull Library for 20 years in the 1960 s and 70s, including 10 years as Assistant Chief Librarian. He retired in 1991 from his position as Director, National Archives of New Zealand.

Stephen Hamilton recently completed a doctorate at the University of Auckland on New Zealand literary periodicals. He is currently working in the Turnbull Library Manuscripts section, after a period editing for the Early Maori Imprint project, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the History of Print Culture in New Zealand of the Humanities Society of New Zealand/Te Whainga Aronui. A.G.E. Jones is a maritime historian living in Tunbridge Wells, England, who has published many works on the South Seas trade and the Antarctic. He has visited New Zealand three times, most recently in January 1992, speaking at the Wellington Maritime Museum and the Turnbull Library.