Margaret Tennant
Margaret Anne Tennant is a New Zealand historian, currently Professor Emeritus at Massey University.
Tennant's master's thesis, completed in 1976 at Massey University, was called Matrons with a mission, and was a study of women's organisations 1893–1915. Her doctoral thesis was completed in 1981, and concerned the charitable aid system in New Zealand.
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. In 2017, Tennant was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in [150 words]", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.
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.
- Children's health, the nation's wealth : a history of children's health camps Bridget Williams Books, 1994.
- Through the prison gate : 125 years of prisoners' aid and rehabilitation New Zealand Prisoners' [Aid & Rehabilitation Society], 2002.
- Matrons with a mission : women's organisations in New Zealand, 1893–1915 MA Thesis, Massey University, 1976 http://hdl.handle.net/10179/5755