I've been blogging. In this case, a series of posts with some history of the Auckland University College.

Part One: Beginnings.
https://www.shayneparkinson.com/auckland-university/1494/
- How Auckland's college came to be the poor relation of the four University Colleges

Part Two: The Council, the Board, and the Polo Ponies.
https://www.shayneparkinson.com/auckland-university-part-two-the-council-the-board-and-the-polo-ponies/1614/
This one rather got away on me. A wronged mathematician and a team of polo ponies. A fascinating story with a lot of rabbit holes to tempt me from my path.

Part Three: The Site Row.
https://www.shayneparkinson.com/auckland-university-part-three-the-site-row/1652/
The curse of Government House. How Auckland high society did its best to send the College packing, and how Fletchers tried to fill in Hobson Bay without bothering with an engineering report.

Part Four: The University Revisited.
https://www.shayneparkinson.com/auckland-university-part-four-the-university-revisited/1780/
A visit to the University as it looks today, and a short musing on my own small connection with it.

#history #NZHistory