Is it time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past?
By Richard Shaw “It is a long since time we Pākehā confronted the unsettled history of the place in which the “team of five million” lives. Time we were honest with ourselves. Time we ended the forgetting.” Whenever I visit my mother in New Plymouth we...
What is the future of Māori-Pakeha relations?
By Dame Anne Salmond Instead of seeing Māori ways as an either/or with existing thinking about the world and its governance, Dame Anne Salmond argues it’s time to bring them together for new institutional forms of order for Aotearoa-New Zealand. For more than...
How bad was Māori segregation?
By Robert Bartholomew Robert Bartholomew says it’s time to educate about a dark chapter of Māori racial segregation. Because while history may not repeat, it speaks to the present. New Zealand secondary schools do an excellent job of teaching about civil rights in the...
Why is the Treaty of Waitangi and its history important? 🔊
In 1987, Dame Claudia Orange published her best-selling book The Treaty of Waitangi. In what was a comprehensive look at the Treaty and its history, Orange’s book remains one of the most significant and popular New Zealand history books. It has also now been...
How significant was the Treaty of Waitangi Act?
By Claudia Orange In a new edition of her popular book, The Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi: An Illustrated History, distinguished historian Dame Claudia Orange brings the narrative of the Treaty up-to-date. In this extract, she explores the critical phase...
What’s wrong with the Anzac mythology?
By James Robins “In salvaging these stories of bloodshed and terror, heroism and humanity, we must pick apart the grand mythology which has smothered and replaced them.” A blue dawn broke over the hush, new light disputing the cool wash of lamp glow....
History Masterclass: Who was New Zealand’s first populist government? 🔊
In this history masterclass series, three historians – Paul Taillon, Malcolm Campbell, and Linda Bryder – come together from different specialist areas in the history discipline to address the role of populism as a historical force. In this series, you will hear about...
Broken survivors: With them through hell
By Anna Rogers [W]ork . . . will be needed to care for the poor broken survivors . . . there will not be the excitement of preparing for a convoy of wounded, or of passing through a casualty clearing station the large numbers of recently wounded. There will not be the...
125 years of women’s suffrage: A small country leading the world?
By Raewyn Dalziel Raewyn Dalziel, Emeritus Professor of History, celebrates a moment when New Zealand was at the forefront of world-leading reform. Camellias flowering in September are an annual reminder of the passage of The Electoral Act, 1893, the culmination of...Subscribe by Email
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