Margaret Tennant

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Margaret Tennant
Tennant in 2007
Alma materMassey University
Scientific career
FieldsNew Zealand history
InstitutionsMassey University
ThesisIndigence and charitable aid in New Zealand 1885-1920 (1981)
Doctoral advisorW. H. Oliver

Margaret Anne Tennant is a New Zealand historian, currently Professor Emeritus at Massey University.[1]

Tennant's Masters thesis, completed in 1976, was called Matrons with a mission, and was a study of women's organisations 1893–1915.[2]

Tennant has written for Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.[3][4][5]

Tennant was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009 and is currently on the Council.[6] In 2017, Tennant was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[2]

Selected works

  • Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, Otago University Press. ISBN [7]
  • Paupers & providers : charitable aid in New Zealand Allen & Unwin, 1989. ISBN 0046140204
  • Children's health, the nation's wealth : a history of children's health camps Bridget Williams Books, 1994. ISBN 0908912684
  • Through the prison gate : 125 years of prisoners' aid and rehabilitation New Zealand Prisoners' Aid & Rehabilitation Society, 2002. ISBN 0473089890
  • Matrons with a mission : women's organisations in New Zealand, 1893-1915 MA Thesis, Massey University, 1976 http://hdl.handle.net/10179/5755

References

  1. ^ "Three new professors emeriti - Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Margaret Tennant". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Paterson, Ada Gertrude – Biography – Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand". Teara.govt.nz. 26 August 1937. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Macdonald, Sadie – Biography – Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand". Teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Voluntary welfare organisations – Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand". Teara.govt.nz. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Professor Margaret Tennant « Council « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  7. ^ "Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History, Edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, Otago University Press - Ministry of Social Development". Msd.govt.nz. 26 November 2005. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

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