Further information

This web feature was edited and expanded by Amy Donald and produced by the NZHistory team.

The content is based on a group project about Wellington café culture 1920-2000 produced by seven Master of Public History students from Victoria University of Wellington in 2000. The results of their research were presented in a website exhibition. The original content from this web project can be accessed here as a PDF document.

Publications

Film

A day in the life at Matterhorn, produced and directed by George Stuck, NZ Film Archive, Wellington 2002.
Carmen, produced and directed by Geoff Stevens for VIDCOM, 1989

Oral histories

Cappuccino Oral History Project, Oral History and Sound Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library of New Zealand

Unpublished papers

Harry Seresin Papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Ref. no. 91-304

Secondary works

Coffee places

Burton, David, and Grant Sheehan, Character Cafés of New Zealand, Wellington, 1994
Clayton, Pauline, Eating Houses in Wellington, Wellington, 1980
Everts, Ali, Wellington's Café Culture: A Visual Guide, Wellington, 1999
MacGregor, Rob, Around New Zealand in 80 Cups, Auckland, 1960

Biography

Rupe, Carmen, Carmen: My Life (as told to Paul Martin), Auckland, 1988

Immigrants to Wellington

Burnley, I.H., 'The Greeks', in K.W. Thomson and A.D. Trlin (eds), Immigrants in New Zealand, Palmerston North, 1970
Lochore, R.A., From Europe to New Zealand: An Account of Our Continental European Settlers, Wellington, 1951
McGill, David, The Other New Zealanders, Wellington, 1982
Schouten, Hank, Tasman's Legacy: The New Zealand-Dutch Connection, Wellington, 1992

Wellington from 1920

Bioletti, Harry, The Yanks are Coming: The American Invasion of New Zealand, 1942-1944, Auckland, 1989
Lawlor, Pat, Old Wellington Hotels, Wellington, 1974
Phillips, Jock, and Ellen Ellis, Brief Encounter: American Forces and the New Zealand People 1942-1945, Wellington, 1992
Stewart, Graham, Around Wellington by Tram in the 20th Century, Wellington, 1999
Taylor, Linda, 'Modernity Arrives: Massey House' in John Wilson (ed.), Zeal and Crusade: The Modern Movement in Wellington, Christchurch, 1996
Watkins, Roger, When Rock Got Rolling: The Wellington Scene, 1958-70, Christchurch, 1989

Social background

Barrowman, Rachel, A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930-1950, Wellington, 1991
Dix, John, Stranded in Paradise: New Zealand Rock'n'Roll, 1955-1988, Wellington, 1988
Phillips, Jock, A Man's Country? The Image of the Pakeha Male - A History, Auckland, 1987
Yska, Redmer, All Shook Up: The Flash Bodgie and the Rise of the New Zealand Teenager in the Fifties, Auckland, 1993