Bronwyn Labrum is a New Zealand cultural historian and author. Labrum was born and raised in

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, and attended Whanganui High School. She received a BA Hons and M.A. in history at

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, and was deputy editor of the student magazine ''

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''. She graduated with a PhD from

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in 2000. Labrum worked as curator of history and textiles at the

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, and was an associate professor in the School of Design at Massey University as well as teaching history at the

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. From 2016 she was the head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa. She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects. In December 2020 she was appointed Director of the

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, to start in February 2021. Labrum's 2015 book ''Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand'' ''in the 1950s and 1960s'' was shortlisted for the 2016

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Published works

* ''Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s'' (

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, 2015). * ''Women Now: the Legacy of Female Suffrage'' (

, 2018). * ''Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History'' (

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, 2000).

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