Women's magazines
A library just isn’t a library without displays and with our collections, we are spoilt for choice in the display material available to us. We decided to put together a display for the Central Auckland Research Centre on the women’s magazines in the collection because they are just such a fascinating part of our 20th century heritage – the 1970’s especially. It was tough deciding which magazines to select and also which individual issues to highlight. With all those unique seventies designs, the adverts and the products, the fashion, the makeup, the grittiness of topics and issues…. there was so much to choose from. Ref: Central Auckland Research Centre In the end, we went with 'Broadsheet' and 'Eve', two different magazines from the period. The research centre has bound collections of both these, and other magazines, on the open shelves. 'Broadsheet' (1972 to 1997) was run by a collective of the Auckland Women’s Liberation movement and...