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Elizabeth Cox

@bayheritage.bsky.social
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Author, historian, #Wellington. Recently published "Mr Ward's Map" a history of Wellington in the 1890s. Published "Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture" in 2022

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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So proud of Jo for her nominations for three book design awards in the PANZ Book Design Awards for her work on Mr Ward’s Maps.
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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They changed the stickers 💛
A close up of the book Mr Ward's Map with a gold sticker "Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Winner"
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, historian and winner of the Ockhams 2026 BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction! @bayheritage.bsky.social #theockhams
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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Enjoy this page-by-page flickthrough of the epic Mr Ward’s Map book, a street-by-street look at Victorian Wellington, now the @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social Bookhub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction winner! Huge congrats @bayheritage.bsky.social #MasseyUniversityPress (designed by me!) #TheOckhams
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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My new book "Mr Ward's Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street" came out five weeks ago - it's been a blur ever since! It's been #1 best seller at Unity Books Wgtn in the five weeks leading up to Christmas, and in the Listener Top 100 best books of the year: bookhub.co.nz/p/mr-ward-s-...
Book cover for Mr Ward's Map
layout of a few pages of the book
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
When the book by historian Elizabeth Cox, Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture was published, there were only nine women listed in the Wikipedia category for New Zealand women architects – a number quite at odds with the more than 500 women named in the book.
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Seemed like an appropriate message to take to Parliament.
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
As Aotearoa New Zealand gears up for its second COVID inquiry, it’s crucial everyone watches this clip. Yes, it was tough having closed borders & strict lockdowns, but I’m not sure if people fully understand the scale of devastation we avoided by acting as we did. Listen to this doctor explain.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
A sobering letter to the editor in today’s NZ Herald. #kikorangi #covid19
Text reads: 
[Headline] The sad score so far

We have now lost 6114 of our people to Covid. Last week's dead included a
10-year-old and men and women in their
30s, 40s and 50s. To put that into perspective, we lost just under 12,000 armed forces personnel in World War II.
Not interested in a bun fight over vaccination, just announcing New Zealand's score so far - because it looks like it might be a long game. Please all take good care of yourselves out there.

[signed] Roger Wakefield, Coopers Beach.
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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Is this the grimmest classified ad you've ever seen? Advert from a woman living in 'slum street' in Wellington, in 1889. #wellington
Advert reading: "Wanted, a kind person to adopt a Baby Boy, three weeks old. Apply Mrs Browett, Grainger Street".
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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Have you caught with the beautiful new concept of BookHub? It gives you access to the inventory of independent bookstores across NZ, and you can order your books from whichever one you want to support. Lovely. Support local bookshops! And it even has my book in it... tinyurl.com/39xehdb3
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