WMHS

Programme

Name: Performing with Difficulty | presenter David Barker
Start: 2025-05-07
End: 2025-05-07
Location: Newtown Salvation Army Worship & Community Centre

Upcoming presentations

May 2025

Performing with Difficulty | presenter David Barker

Following on from last year’s presentation on musicians who died young of medical issues, we have a selection of musicians who managed to make a career despite their medical issues,...

07 May

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Newtown Salvation Army Worship & Community Centre

4 Normanby Street, Newtown

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June 2025

Women Doctors on the Nineteenth Century Stage: Education and Entertainment

Barbara Brookes is Professor Emerita in History, University of Otago. Her work has focused on the intersections between the history of women and the history of medicine. She is the author of the prize-winning, A History of Women in New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2016). She is completing a biography of Anna Longshore Potts, provisionally entitled 'Performing Medicine'.

04 Jun

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Newtown Salvation Army Worship & Community Centre

4 Normanby Street, Newtown

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July 2025

Drs Henry and Cecily Pickerill, Mother-Nursing, and Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery on Infant Patients at the Bassam Hospital, 1939-1967

I examine the pioneering work of New Zealand plastic surgeons Henry and Cecily Pickerill, specifically their establishment of the Bassam Hospital in 1939. For nearly thirty years this small, private...

02 Jul

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Past presentations

April 2025

April

Wednesday

Mary Truby King’s Holidays in 1918 – The Armistice, Influenza and Christmas at Porirua

Newtown Salvation Army Worship & Community Centre | 4 Normanby Street, Newtown

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