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… was still largely equated with progress. Writers In the 1930s and 1940s a group of young intellectuals, including … Landscape and identity: 1930s–1960s …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… without admitting them. New treatments From the late 1930s a number of new treatments for severe mental illness … Mental hospitals, 1910s to 1930s …
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Part of story: Mental health services
… Depression The economic depression of the 1930s brought a sudden end to arts-and-crafts-movement … of happiness – was a very common motif in embroidery in the 1930s and 1940s. It symbolised perfect domestic happiness at … often rather difficult. Tentative modernism Through the 1930s modernism was emerging in Europe and America, yet …
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Part of story: Crafts and applied arts
… with creating a readership for New Zealand fiction in the 1930s and 1940s. Scanlan published several novels in England … Women writers, 1920s and 1930s …
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Part of story: Fiction
… element of Parliament grounds, which he designed in 1930. Many of the large trees still standing in the 21st … was designing reserves and streetscapes in Rotorua between 1930 and 1932. He covered what are now standard landscape … Dunedin Botanic Garden during her employment there in the 1930s and 1940s and studied landscape architecture in London …
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Part of story: Landscape architecture
… Between 1930 and 1950 there were renewed attempts to establish arts … 1940. Other periodicals Other journals originating in the 1930s and 1940s included: Spil t Ink (1932–37). Started by … Art and literary magazines, 1930 to 1950 …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… in Tomorrow , a left-wing Christchurch journal, in the 1930s. The brief stories in his collection Conversation with … comes to New Zealand during the economic depression of the 1930s, is caught up in rioting in Auckland and leaves the … The New Zealand voice, 1930s and 1940s …
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Part of story: Fiction
… Realism The heart of the 1930s generation’s cultural nationalism was, in Allen … the form of hills and burnt-out trees. Men only The 1930s generation’s values led them towards a male chauvinism … seas was a favourite metaphor. The land, not society The 1930s generation found solace in the land. They challenged …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… for her war services. Debate about soil erosion In the late 1930s and early 1940s there was growing concern about soil … DSIR soil science: 1930–1950 …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… in decline. When world-wide economic depression hit in the 1930s its collapse seemed imminent. … The flax fibre industry: 1860s–1930s …
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Part of story: Flax and flax working
… Department During the economic depression of the early 1930s, Native Minister Apirana Ngata headed an overhaul of … Depression, war and urbanisation, 1930s to 1960s …
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Part of story: Ngā take Māori – government policy and Māori
… The comics scare In the 1930s concerns were raised over the influx of comics from … Censorship and a changing society, 1930s to 2010s …
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Part of story: Censorship
… 1920s, and vitamins A, B, C and D were synthesised from the 1930s. Oestrogen was used to treat menopausal symptoms, such as hot flushes, from the 1930s. The important antibiotic prontosil was discovered in … Plant extracts to modern drugs, 1900 to 1930s …
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Part of story: Medicines and remedies