Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849

Patricia Thomas is a print historian with a special interest in typography and printed ephemera. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Design of Massey University, New Zealand. Her work is necessarily multi-disciplinary, with the material taking her into the histories of emigration, politics, branding and women’s printing, predominantly but not exclusively related to New Zealand. She has a PhD in Visual and Material Culture and has presented papers on the ephemera of emigration, war recruitment, underground print, and women in print at a number of international conferences over the past 15 years. Her recent publications include “The Habits and Institutions of Englishmen: Using the Pamphlet and Small Book Collection of Two New Zealand Research Libraries” (2010); “Emigration and Imperial Business: The New Zealand Company Brand 1839-1841” (2015); “The Other Side of History: Underground Literature and the 1951 Waterfront Dispute” (2017); and “Iconoclastic Effrontery: Rex Fairburn. Bob Lowry and the Printing of Polemics” (2017).