School Jubilee Histories

Traditionally published to celebrate a milestone in a school's history, jubilee & centennial publications can offer a fascinating insight into a community's past. For some smaller towns and suburbs, school jubilee booklets may be one of the few formally published works which document their history. Wellington City Libraries has been collecting school histories from across the country for several decades and these now number more than 100 forming part of the NZ Reference Collection which is currently in off-site storage following the closure of the Central Library in March 2019. A selection of jubilee histories from Wellington schools have been digitised on this Recollect platform.