Member Profile

First Name

Lloyd

Surname

Carpenter

PHANZA Joining Date

14 February 2012

Organisation

University of Canterbury

Region

Canterbury

Specialities

New Zealand Gold Rush History, Mining technology, especially water races, Church and social history, Wine & Culinary History, Maori & Colonial History

About Me

Lloyd Carpenter (Ngati Toa Rangatira) B.Sc., Dip.Tchg., Dip.Bib.Min, B.A.(hons) began his teaching career as a Maths and Economics teacher at Christ’s College before going into a career in sales management, leaving that to become a Salvation Army officer.

He then spent seven years teaching at Aranui High School, and is now studying at the University of Canterbury, applying his interests in Archaeology, History and Cultural Studies to a PhD focused on the Central Otago gold-rush.

Publications and Research

'Beyond Spectacular Beauty - The Heritage Experience at Bendigo, Central Otago' - Published in proceedings, 'On The Surface - Mines and the Heritage of Mining' Conference, Innsbruck, 2011

'Reviled in the Record: Thomas Logan and the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company at Bendigo, Central Otago', Journal of Australasian Mining History, September 2011

'Defining a Date and Place: The Problematic Journal of George Magnus Hassing and His Story of the First Years of Bendigo', Journal of Australasian Mining History, September 2012

'A 35-year Endeavour: Bendigo’s Rise and Shine Sluicing Syndicate' Australasian Historical Archaeology Journal, December 2012

'Lighting a gen'rous, manly flame: The Nostalgia for "dear old Bendigo"' Journal of Australian Studies, March, 2013

Current projects:

‘A petty and spiteful spirit on the part of the Company’ - the 1881 Cromwell Company strike at Bendigo, Otago

Merchants of the Otago Goldfields: Nineteenth Century Venture Capitalists

The Quartz Claims of the Rise and Shine Valley

More than Piles of Stone, the Heritage of the Gold Rush

Some Nostalgia with your Pinot? The Central Otago Gold Rush on Wine Labels.

Heritage and Whakapapa

A letter from Bendigo

150 Years of Riches: The Central Otago Gold Rush, 1862 - 2012 - Book based on conference proceedings

History

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