Margaret Tennant

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Residence New Zealand Fields New Zealand history		Name Margaret Tennant Alma mater Massey University

Thesis Indigence and charitable aid in New Zealand 1885-1920 (1981) Books Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: A History of Children's Health Camps

Margaret Anne Tennant is a New Zealand historian, currently Professor Emeritus at Massey University.

Tennant has written for Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

Tennant was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009 and is currently on the Council.

Selected works

Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, Otago University Press. ISBN

Paupers & providers : charitable aid in New Zealand Allen & Unwin, 1989. ISBN 0046140204

Children's health, the nation's wealth : a history of children's health camps Bridget Williams Books, 1994. ISBN 0908912684

Through the prison gate : 125 years of prisoners' aid and rehabilitation New Zealand Prisoners' Aid & Rehabilitation Society, 2002. ISBN 0473089890

Matrons with a mission : women's organisations in New Zealand, 1893-1915 MA Thesis, Massey University, 1976.

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