New Zealand Historical Association

Month: April 2013

  • The Ian Wards Prize and the Michael Standish Prize

    The NZHA would like to congratulate the 2012 joint winners of the Ian Wards Prize: Charlotte Macdonald for Strong, Beautiful and Modern. National fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935 – 1960 and Robert Peden for Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands. The Ian Wards Prize…

  • News from the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

    Steve Behrendt finishes as Head of Programme in June 2013, to be succeeded by Kate Hunter. Giacomo Lichtner continues as Postgraduate Coordinator. Charlotte Macdonald and Cybèle Locke are honours coordinators, and Adrian Muckle organizes the Programme’s Friday lunchtime seminar series. If you interested in giving a seminar please contact Adrian. Our two major publications from…

  • An update from Prof. Tom Brooking, NZHA President

    Dear NZHA Members, We have been busy here at Otago even if you have not heard a lot from us recently.  First, we have spent some time revamping our association’s website, which has a blog embedded in it.  This is now up and running (obviously!) and will allow us to quickly highlight matters of moment,…

  • Deadline for submission to the Journal of New Zealand Studies

    The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington has announced that the submission deadline for the 2013 issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies is 1 July 2013. Papers are welcome from any discipline and on any topic, and all submissions go through a process of anonymous peer review.…

  • Kiwi ex-pat Sir Archibald McIndoe to be honoured with a statue in Sussex

    Sir Archibald McIndoe (1900-1960) was the grandson of two families with very deep links to colonial Otago.  His father’s business, founded in 1893, was a feature of Dunedin’s commercial landscape until 2008.  His mother, a Wellingtonian, was a sister of the famous composer of Alfred Hill, thus both were of Hills Hats fame.  Archibald attended…