Scholarships
In 2019, the Auckland Library Heritage Trust received a bequest of $100,000 from the estate of John Stacpoole.
ALHT administers four John Stacpoole Scholarships annually. (Scholarships have carried John Stacpoole's name since 2022.)
Three of the four scholarships are summer scholarships under the management and supervision of the Auckland History Initiative, University of Auckland.
The fourth scholarship is available to researchers, practitioners and professionals who have a particular interest in items in Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.
Read more about John Stacpoole in a piece written by Judith Bassett.
Image: John Stacpoole photographed by Clifton Firth. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 34-0408
2024/2025 Auckland Library Heritage Trust John Stacpoole Scholarship
The Auckland Library Heritage Trust was very pleased to award the 2024/2025 John Stacpoole scholarship to Tania Mace. Tania has researched the lost neighbourhoods of Central Auckland. Making extensive use of the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, she sheds light on the history of lost residential neighbourhoods and the people who made them home.
Earlier recipients
Helen Morton, 2023/2024
Helen's research explored the appeal of food faddists and diet trends in Aotearoa New Zealand, from 1920-1960, as a product of broader concerns regarding the nature of diet and disease during this period.
Mary Kisler, 2020/2021
The biography of James Tannock Mackelvie (1824 - 1885), benefactor to the people of Auckland. Read more.
Finn McCahon-Jones and Megan Hutching, 2019/2020
Finn's research explored the built city, drawing on photographs of Auckland in the library's collection. Megan re-examined some of the 1990s oral histories held in the heritage collection relating to the Glen Innes/Panmure area.
Jake Bransgrove, 2019/2020
This Cook/Banks scholar transcribed the papers and correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook in his first Pacific voyage on the HMS Endeavour in 1768-17.
Chris Turnbull and Gareth Shute, 2018/2019
Chris used the heritage collections to provide context on the appointment of Frederick Moss as the first British Resident of the Cook Islands in 1890. Gareth used photographs and ephemera in the collections to enhance his digital mapping of historic music venues in Auckland.
Dr Majid Daneshagar, 2017/2018
The project was a catalogue of Middle Eastern manuscripts held by Auckland Libraries.
Dr Aleisha Ward, 2016/2017
Dr Ward's research (which resulted in a published chapter) looked at the age of jazz in Auckland.
Dr Ross Calman, 2015/2016
The scholarship enabled Ross to visit Auckland to see a manuscript Te Rauparaha wrote in the 1860s. It is a 50,000-word account of his father's life. Listen.
Dr Zain Ali and Dr Geoff Kemp, 2014/2015
Zain Ali's research focused on a golden Qur'ān and some manuscripts of poems in Arabic held by Auckland Libraries. Geoff's research focused on Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate using the Thurloe Papers (chapter published).
Dr Lawrence Marceau and Vanessa York, 2013/2014
Lawrence's work focused on Japanese illustrated woodblock printed books and Vanessa York's on early printed herbals and botanical perfumery.
Summer research scholarships
Visit the Auckland History Initiative for more about the projects ALHT has supported by funding summer research scholarships for students.
Examples of recent projects you can read about on the AHI website:
'Delays, disputes and displacement: The complex history of Auckland International Airport' - Alexandru Cotos
'151 Queen Street, 131 Queen Street, 205-225 Queen Street' - Riley Bogard-Allan
'The Frameworks – the Construction of Mount Eden Prison' - Leane Te Boekhorst
'Unstable Ground: Migrant Producers, Selling, and Discrimination in Auckland 1890-1920s' - Emily O'Callaghan
'How Auckland Ditched Rail for Roads and Rubber Tyres' - Sam Turner-O’Keeffe
'Auckland’s Sportswomen: a Conduit for Social Tension' - Katia Kennedy
'Opening the Door to the Private Spaces of Auckland’s Queer Communities' - Friederike Voit
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