Join the History department at the Canterbury History Foundation’s 2020 Jim Gardner Memorial Lecture.
2pm Sunday 26 July. Central Lecture Theatre C2, University of Canterbury
Dr Jock Phillips
‘Neville Phillips and the Mother Country: the making of an Anglophile historian’
Neville Phillips was a Lecturer in History at the University of Canterbury 1946-8, Professor 1949-66, and Vice Chancellor 1966-77.
In the former role he gave History at Canterbury an international reputation for high standards, and in the latter role he master-minded the university’s move from the city to the Ilam campus.
On his retirement he was awarded an Honorary LittD. He died in 2001.
His son Jock Phillips lectured at Victoria University, where he set up the Stout Research Centre and wrote A Man’s Country (1987) on the stereotype of the Kiwi male.
He then became Chief Historian of the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, and supervised histories of government departments and the New Zealand Historical Atlas.
From 1993 he advised the national Museum Te Papa on its history exhibitions, and from 2002 to 2014 he edited New Zealand’s online encyclopedia, Te Ara.
His Autobiography Making History was published last year.
The 2020 Rhodes History Medal will be presented to Mrs Wendy Dalley.
Ample free parking off University Drive
Free afternoon tea (donations appreciated)
