New Zealand Historical Association

Month: April 2015

  • Applications now open: 2015-16 Collaborative Newspaper Digitisation Programme

    Apply to be part of this programme now if you have a newspaper title you want to digitise and add to Papers Past. We’ll get it online and split the costs with you, 50/50.  This year we aim to add around 80,000 pages of newspapers through the programme.  See our guide for more information on…

  • Call for papers: Memory Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Massey University, Wellington Campus, is hosting a conference on 12 November 2015 on Memory Studies in New Zealand. Papers on any memory-related topic will be considered.Themes could include: Māori memory Techniques of Memory Memory and Place Trauma and Memory Postcolonialism and memory in Aotearoa New Zealand Aotearoa New Zealand literatures of memory Memory on Aotearoa…

  • The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme Expressions of Interest opening soon…..

    The Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will offer at least 6 full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2016. Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years. Sponsored applicants must have been awarded their PhD on or after 1st March 2012, or…

  • Reminder, W. H. Oliver Prize, entries close on 1 May 2015

    Dear historians and publishers We wish to remind you to put forward entries for the Inaugural W. H. Oliver Prize. The W. H. Oliver prize will be awarded for the best book on any aspect of New Zealand history published between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2015. Authors and/or publishers should email nzhawebmaster@gmail.com with…

  • Dinosaurs & space-shuttles, Dr Phil Manning’s lecture tour of NZ

    Dr Phil Manning, Dinosaurs & space-shuttles: how space-shuttle technology was used to study a 67-million-year-old hadrosaur…. In 1999 the mummified remains of a hadrosaur dinosaur were discovered in North Dakota, USA. Skin, muscle, tendons and other soft tissue that rarely survive fossilisation were preserved in this 67-million-year-old dinosaur, allowing scientists to estimate its muscle mass…