In this episode of the Awekura series we talk with Renée Orr, Rare Book specialist and Curatorial Services Team Leader at Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections. Renee shares with us a rare 17th Century book, its history and provenance, to this recently donated gift to the Heritage Collection.
It’s a bit of a tongue twister of a title! "The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, who Dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God, in the City of London, the Fourteenth of the Twelfth Moneth, 1662".
The book was printed in 1672 in London and is a collection of the writings of influential Quaker, Edward Burrough.
Read more about the book and find links to related material here:
https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2025/11/awekura-edward-burrough-1634-1663.html
Image: A collage produced by Julian Lubin from photographs of the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.
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In this episode of the Awekura series we talk with Renée Orr, Rare Book specialist and Curatorial Services Team Leader at Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections. Renee shares with us a rare 17th Century book, its history and provenance, to this recently donated gift to the Heritage Collection.
It’s a bit of a tongue twister of a title! "The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, who Dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God, in the City of London, the Fourteenth of the Twelfth Moneth, 1662".
The book was printed in 1672 in London and is a collection of the writings of influential Quaker, Edward Burrough.
Read more about the book and find links to related material here:
https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2025/11/awekura-edward-burrough-1634-1663.html
Image: A collage produced by Julian Lubin from photographs of the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.
This clip is drawn from an oral history with Suzanne Chan On as part of the
From Guangdong to Aotearoa Collection.
In this snippet Suzanne talks about activities seen and unseen. She describes shops, gambling and opium dens in the Greys Avenue neighbourhood.
See the exhibition: Lost Neighbourhoods of Central Auckland on Level 2 of the Central City Library April - May 2025
Suzanne Chan On, oral history, 2014, interviewer Sue Gee, From Guangdong to Aotearoa Collection, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, OH-1133-003
Image: Accompany material from OH-1133-003.
Ngā Pātaka Kōrero - Auckland Libraries
In this episode of the Awekura series we talk with Renée Orr, Rare Book specialist and Curatorial Services Team Leader at Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections. Renee shares with us a rare 17th Century book, its history and provenance, to this recently donated gift to the Heritage Collection.
It’s a bit of a tongue twister of a title! "The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, who Dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God, in the City of London, the Fourteenth of the Twelfth Moneth, 1662".
The book was printed in 1672 in London and is a collection of the writings of influential Quaker, Edward Burrough.
Read more about the book and find links to related material here:
https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2025/11/awekura-edward-burrough-1634-1663.html
Image: A collage produced by Julian Lubin from photographs of the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.
