This web feature was edited and expanded by Amy Donald and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz 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.
Links
- Monde Marie website
- No Pavlova Please: Images of Food and Drink in Twentieth-Century New Zealand (NZHistory.net.nz)
- Wellington (Te Ara)
- The Wellingtonians (National Library)
Publications
Film
- A day in the life at Matterhorn, produced and directed by George Stuck, NZ Film Archive, Wellington 2002.2915
- Carmen, produced and directed by Geoff Stevens for VIDCOM, 1989
Oral histories
- Cappuccino Oral History Project, Oral History Centre, 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Unpublished papers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
