Nominations are now open for the three major prizes administered by the NZHA: The Best First Book Prize The W.H. Oliver Prize The Mary Boyd Prize All nominations for these prizes close on the 31st of May, 2019. For more information and to submit a nomination, the First Book/Oliver prize form is available HERE and…

This paper examines the indigenous-colonial discourse on the treatment for Indian insanity. The paper argues that the establishment of the asylums necessitated a colonial construction of the Indian understanding of mental illness and its treatment as entirely spiritual and consequently ‘superstitious’. Colonial agencies used this narrative to justify the establishment of the asylum and promote…

The call for papers deadline for the NZHA conference, ‘Kanohi-ki-te-Kanohi: Histories for our Time’ has been extended. We are now accepting submissions up to April 26.

The University of Otago and the Tōtaranui 250 Trust announce a conference to take place in Blenheim, New Zealand from 1-3 December 2019 that will explore the global history of science, technology, medicine, and mātauranga (indigenous knowledge). The conference will be part of a sequence of national events in New Zealand titled Tuia – Encounters…

Sport, Richard Holt suggested, generates a series of ‘stories we tell ourselves about ourselves’. Sport occupies a prominent place in New Zealand life. Sporting occasions feature prominently in the collective memory of New Zealanders and have been strongly linked to a still evolving national identity. Historically, sport has been presented as a positive force in…

Big book publishing have recently released series three of ‘The Chronicles of Paki’, which follows the events leading up to, during and following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. For more information, see: http://www.bigbook.nz/product/chronicles-of-paki-series-3/

In this historical excursion around London of 1863 (and 2018) we will be following Spencer P. T. Nicholls as he makes preparations to embark for the war in New Zealand as an officer with the 43rd regiment. What do his purchases tell us of the Victorian global supply chain, the multiple spaces of imperial warfare, of coercive sociability…