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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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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-...

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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thanks Caren - I hope you enjoy it :)

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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 · 23/11/2023

Maybe something like this?? lladronaofigures.com/lladro-figur...

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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Despite being a 'slum', the people who lived there were not keen to lose their homes, as shown here in their reaction to a photographer being sent around to take the photos above:

Newspaper article from 1898 which reads:
An amusing incident has occurred in connection with the alterations going on at the Grainger street block. Several owners in the vicinity rather resent the interference of the authorities with their domiciles, and when a day or two ago a photographer, who had been engaged by the Harbour Board to take views of the buildings so that their suitability or otherwise to remain in situ could be seen at a glance, a most exciting scene ensued.

One section of the little community busied itself with tying sheets along their verandah posts to hide the defects of their residences, while the remainder - the womenkind - made a broomstick demonstration in the vicinity of the camera man with such threatening vocal accompaniments that he was obliged to remove himself with all haste from the vicinity.

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Elizabeth Cox @bayheritage.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

It was between Courtenay Place and the sea, where Blair and Allen Street is now. These images were taken just before it was demolished in 1898.

Tiny houses very close together with messy backyards, looking towards a large gasometer

Tiny houses, many very close together, looking towards the sea in the distance

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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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