Join us in congratulating NZHA member Ryan Bodman on his win at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this week. Ryan’s book Rugby League in New Zealand: A People’s History won the Judith Binney prize for illustrated non-fiction. For a full list of the winners see the NZ Book Awards website.

Archives New Zealand has announced it will be closing its digitisation programme and on-demand digitisation service on 30 June 2024. Read the announcement here.Radio New Zealand piece here. This announcement comes on top of another recent decision, not to proceed with the planned archival storage facility near Levin. It also follows reductions in opening hours…

Today (1 May), 3.30pm: Zoom Link Presented by NZHA President, Associate Professor Miranda Johnson In Australia and New Zealand, a complex politics of indigeneity and belonging after empire has generated distinctive claims about the past and the practice of history. Epistemological, political, and moral challenges to the nation as an imagined, progressive, community have fragmented…