New Zealand Historical Association

Month: March 2016

  • A History of New Zealand Women

    A History of New Zealand Women

    Congratulations to Barbara Brookes on the tremendous success of her book, A History of New Zealand Women. The book is so popular that it has already sold out, and publisher Bridget Williams Books expects more stock to arrive in late March. In the book Brookes argues that while European men erected the political scaffolding to create a…

  • Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) Submissions

    Have a say on proposals about access to Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) information. Make submissions on the Proposals Paper released by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon Peter Dunne, earlier this week. The release of the Proposals Paper marks the second phase in the review of access provisions in the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and…

  • The New Zealand Journal of Public History Call for Papers

    The New Zealand Journal of Public History is soliciting articles, short critiques and commentaries for NZJPH4: Ethics in Public History. Contributions concerning ethical considerations around collecting, preservation and display, or the ethical tensions variously linking historians, stakeholders and commissioning bodies, would be particularly welcome. Submissions are invited from public historians working within a range of…

  • The myriad faces of war: 1917 and its legacy

    An international, multidisciplinary symposium in New Zealand to be held at Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand 25-28 April 2017. 1917 was a seminal year in the history of the modern world. The First World War stressed the livelihoods and resources of nations, states and societies – combatant and otherwise – with often direct and…

  • Winston’s Birthday: The Play

    Winston’s Birthday: The Play

    Secrets are revealed, resentments released and new understandings formed in this fresh and funny perspective on an iconic and larger-than life family. It’s 1962 – the Beatles have their first hit, James Bond his first film – and Randolph Churchill is holding a luncheon party to celebrate the 88th birthday of his admired but estranged…

  • All that glitters is not gold: Critiques of Globalization in New Zealand and the Pacific

    All that glitters is not gold: Critiques of Globalization in New Zealand and the Pacific

    Regent’s University, London 8-9 July, 2016 With the 2008 Financial Crisis and austerity, protest over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the refugee crisis in Europe and the spotlight on Australia’s inhuman treatment of asylum seekers, the rise of ISIS, the concerted turn to nationalism in the EU, scholarship and public discourse around globalization is increasingly turning away…