Bronwyn Labrum

{{Short description|New Zealand cultural historian and author}}

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Bronwyn Labrum is a New Zealand cultural historian and author.{{cite web|author=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/about/te-papa-press/our-authors/bronwyn-labrum-biography-and-interview |title=Bronwyn Labrum: biography and interview |publisher=Te Papa |date= 13 September 2018|accessdate=13 November 2019}}

Labrum was born and raised in Whanganui, and attended Whanganui High School.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=17 December 2020|title=Whanganui Regional Museum appoints Dr Bronwyn Labrum as new director|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/whanganui-regional-museum-appoints-dr-bronwyn-labrum-as-new-director/CTREZB6X6IYYJFYUDZTEAI5VTQ/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216212229/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/whanganui-regional-museum-appoints-dr-bronwyn-labrum-as-new-director/CTREZB6X6IYYJFYUDZTEAI5VTQ/ |archive-date=16 December 2020 |access-date=2020-12-20|website=Whanganui Chronicle |language=en-NZ}} She received a BA Hons and M.A. in history at Massey University,{{cite thesis |last=Labrum |first=Bronwyn |year=1990 |type=Masters thesis |title=Gender and lunacy : a study of women patients at the Auckland Lunatic Asylum, 1870-1910 |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/8497}} and was deputy editor of the student magazine Chaff.{{Cite web|last=White|first=Tina|date=2016-10-14|title=Social history down to the sweetest detail|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/85315605/social-history-down-to-the-sweetest-detail|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128154445/http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/85315605/social-history-down-to-the-sweetest-detail |archive-date=28 January 2017 |access-date=2020-12-20|website=Stuff |language=en}} She graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2000.

Labrum worked as curator of history and textiles at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, and was an associate professor in the School of Design at Massey University as well as teaching history at the University of Waikato. From 2016 she was the head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa.{{cite web |url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/about-the-school/dr-bronwyn-labrum.cfm?lang=en |title=Dr Bronwyn Labrum – Massey University |publisher=Massey.ac.nz |date=7 May 2019 |accessdate=13 November 2019 |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021103555/https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/about-the-school/dr-bronwyn-labrum.cfm?lang=en |url-status=dead }} She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects. In December 2020 she was appointed Director of the Whanganui Regional Museum, to start in February 2021.

Labrum's 2015 book Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.{{cite web|author=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |url=https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/about/te-papa-press/history-titles/recent-title-real-modern-everyday-new-zealand-1950s-and-1960s |title=Recent title: Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s |publisher=Te Papa |date= 29 January 2016|accessdate=13 November 2019}}