Bronwyn Labrum

{{Short description|New Zealand cultural historian and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2025}}

'''Bronwyn Labrum''' is a New Zealand cultural historian and author.<ref>{{cite web|author=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/about/te-papa-press/our-authors/bronwyn-labrum-biography-and-interview |title=Bronwyn Labrum: biography and interview |publisher=Te Papa |date= 13 September 2018|accessdate=13 November 2019}}</ref>

Labrum was born and raised in Whanganui, and attended Whanganui High School.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=17 December 2020|title=Whanganui Regional Museum appoints Dr Bronwyn Labrum as new director|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/whanganui-regional-museum-appoints-dr-bronwyn-labrum-as-new-director/CTREZB6X6IYYJFYUDZTEAI5VTQ/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216212229/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/whanganui-regional-museum-appoints-dr-bronwyn-labrum-as-new-director/CTREZB6X6IYYJFYUDZTEAI5VTQ/ |archive-date=16 December 2020 |access-date=2020-12-20|website=Whanganui Chronicle |language=en-NZ}}</ref> She received a BA Hons and M.A. in history at Massey University,<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Labrum |first=Bronwyn |year=1990 |type=Masters thesis |title=Gender and lunacy : a study of women patients at the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, 1870-1910 |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/8497}}</ref> and was deputy editor of the student magazine ''Chaff''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=White|first=Tina|date=2016-10-14|title=Social history down to the sweetest detail|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/85315605/social-history-down-to-the-sweetest-detail|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128154445/http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/85315605/social-history-down-to-the-sweetest-detail |archive-date=28 January 2017 |access-date=2020-12-20|website=Stuff |language=en}}</ref> She graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2000.<ref name=":0" />

Labrum worked as curator of history and textiles at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, and was an associate professor in the School of Design at Massey University as well as teaching history at the University of Waikato.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> From 2016 she was the head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/about-the-school/dr-bronwyn-labrum.cfm?lang=en |title=Dr Bronwyn Labrum – Massey University |publisher=Massey.ac.nz |date=7 May 2019 |accessdate=13 November 2019 |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021103555/https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/about-the-school/dr-bronwyn-labrum.cfm?lang=en |url-status=dead }}</ref> She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects.<ref name=":0" /> In December 2020 she was appointed Director of the Whanganui Regional Museum, to start in February 2021.<ref name=":0" /> In December 2025, she announced her resignation from the Whanganui Regional Museum with effect from 16th January 2026.

Labrum's 2015 book ''Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand'' ''in the 1950s and 1960s'' was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|author=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/about/te-papa-press/history-titles/recent-title-real-modern-everyday-new-zealand-1950s-and-1960s |title=Recent title: Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s |publisher=Te Papa |date= 29 January 2016|accessdate=13 November 2019}}</ref>

==Published works== * ''Women’s History: Researching and Writing Women’s History in New Zealand'' (BWB, 1993) * ''Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand'' (AUP, 2007) * ''Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s'' (Te Papa Press, 2015).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.read-nz.org/aotearoa-reads-details/real-modern-everyday-new-zealand-in-the-1950s-and-1960s |title=Aotearoa Reads Details |publisher=Read NZ |date=11 September 2015 |accessdate=13 November 2019 |archive-date=13 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113044106/https://www.read-nz.org/aotearoa-reads-details/real-modern-everyday-new-zealand-in-the-1950s-and-1960s |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Women Now: the Legacy of Female Suffrage'' (Te Papa Press, 2018).<ref>{{cite web|author=Morning |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018662744/sandra-coney-and-bronwyn-labrum-women-now |title=Sandra Coney and Bronwyn Labrum: Women Now |publisher=RNZ |date=16 September 2018 |accessdate=13 November 2019}}</ref> * ''Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History'' (Auckland University Press, 2000).

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==External links== * [https://twitter.com/BronwynLabrum Bronwyn Labrum] on Twitter

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