Bronwyn Labrum

Bronwyn Labrum is a New Zealand cultural historian and author.

Labrum was born and raised in Whanganui, and attended Whanganui High School. She received a BA Hons and M.A. in history at Massey University, and was deputy editor of the student magazine Chaff. She graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2000. She then joined Canterbury Museum to lead special projects.

Labrum's 2015 book Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Published works Women’s History: Researching and Writing Women’s History in New Zealand (BWB, 1993) Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2007) Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s (Te Papa Press, 2015). Women Now: the Legacy of Female Suffrage (Te Papa Press, 2018). Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History (Auckland University Press, 2000).