Member Profile

First Name

Susan

Surname

Butterworth

PHANZA Joining Date

1994

Region

Wellington

Specialities

business, police, education, voluntary organisations

About Me

I have been a public historian continuously since 1985, now one of the longest-serving in the field. I graduated MA (1st Class Hons) from Massey in 1971 and worked for a while in journalism and at the Consumers' Institute. I have been on the committee of PHANZA for a number of years and was treasurerr 2004-7.

Over the years I have tackled just about every kind of contract history going.- local, business, some treaty work, official history, voluntary societies. Since 1992 I have been in partnership with Graham Butterworth and we have written a number of books together. I was National Library Fellow in 1993-4.

Publications and Research

* =with Graham Butterworth

*Jaycee: Developers of People, Builders of Communities ( Ngaio Press), 2007

More Than Law and Order: Policing a Changing Society 1945-1992, (Otago University Press) 2005

A Duty of Care: Fifty Years of Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation in New Zealand, (NSAD) 2004

The Suter: One Hundred Years in Nelson (Nikau Press) 1999

*Chips Off the Auld Rock: Shetlanders in New Zealand, (Shetland Society of Wellington) 1997

*Reforming Education, the New Zealand Experience 1984-1996, (Dunmore Press) 1997

Quality Bakers Mew Zealand: the First 25 Years (Quality Bakers NZ Ltd) 1997

The Department of Education ; A Guide to its Development 1887-1989, (Learning Media) 1993

*The Maori Trustee (The Maori Trustee) 1992

Petone, a History (Petone Borough Council) 1988

History

Member for

3 years 36 weeks