Helen Elizabeth Beaglehole (née Bisley; born 27 November 1946) is a New Zealand writer, editor and historian.
[2] In 1991, Beaglehole studied creative writing under Bill Manhire at the International Institute of Modern Letters.
[3] Beaglehole spent five years researching and writing Lighting the Coast: A History of New Zealand's Coastal Lighthouse System, which was published in 2006.
[6] In 2004 she received an Award in Oral History from the Department of Internal Affairs about her work interviewing lighthouse keepers.
[7] In 2009, she published a sequel to the work, Always the Sound of the Sea: The Daily Lives of New Zealand's Lighthouse Keepers.