List of Contributors

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 45, 1 January 2013, Page 4

List of Contributors

DAVID COLQUHOUN

David Colquhoun has been Curator of Manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library since 1989. He has written many articles on aspects of New Zealand history, sport, and archives-keeping. His book, As If Running on Air: The Journals of Jack Lovelock was published in 2008, and his most recent book is Wellingtonians: From the Turnbull Library Collections (2011).

WALTER COOK

Walter Cook has worked for the Alexander Turnbull Library since 1986. Before that he worked at the Wellington Public Library, and as a gardener with the Wellington City Council. His interest in applied art resulted in a collection that he donated to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in 1992. He has curated exhibitions of applied art for the Dowse Art Museum and the Wellington City Gallery and has been involved with two exhibitions at Te Papa based on his donated collection.

PAUL DIAMOND

Paul Diamond (Ngati Haua, Te Rarawa and Ngapuhi) was appointed Curator, Maori, at the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2011. He worked as an accountant for seven years before switching to journalism in 1997. He is the author of two books - A Fire in Your Belly (Huia, 2003) and Makereti: Taking Maori to the World (Random House NZ, 2007) - and has worked as an oral historian and broadcaster. From 2007-2009 Paul managed the Vietnam War Oral History Project for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. In 2010 he was appointed to the Board of the New Zealand Book Council.

lAN F. GRANT

Publisher and writer lan F. Grant was founder of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He is currently Chairman of the Guardians of the NZ Cartoon Archive. Four of the 15 books he has written or co-authored are New Zealand cartoon histories.

CHARLOTTE MACDONALD

Charlotte Macdonald is Professor of History at Victoria University of Wellington/Te Whare Wananga 0 Te Opoko o Te Ika a Maui. Her most recent book is Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960 (2011).

GREG RYAN

Greg Ryan is Dean of the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, and Associate Professor of History at Lincoln University. He has published various academic and popular press articles and chapters on sport in New Zealand, with a particular focus on rugby and cricket prior to 1914. He is currently co-authoring a general history of New Zealand sport and writing a history of beer and brewing in New Zealand. He has also published articles on wider themes related to nineteenth-century drinking culture, temperance, prohibition and antiprohibition debates in New Zealand.