The call for papers for Dragon Tails 2019 – the 6th Australasian conference on Chinese diaspora history and heritage (20-23 November 2019) – is now open. The Dragon Tails Association is now accepting submissions for its biennial conference, which will be hosted by Wai-Te-Ata Press at the Victoria Unversity of Wellington. Proposals are due by Friday 10 May…

Queensland-based historian, Martyn Brown, has published a work on New Zealand and the Greek campaign of World War Two: Politics of Forgetting: New Zealand, Greece and Britain at War. Details can be found at p. 3 of this online newsletter: http://scholarly.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/newsletter_mar-apr-2019_v3-1.pdf

Everyone will have been profoundly shocked by the massacres in the Christchurch mosques on Friday afternoon. Many of us will find it hard to comprehend that such hatred could be held, and expressed, against people of Islamic faith, gathering for worship. We know that some of our members in Christchurch will have been close to…

In 2015, Germany welcomed about one million refugees. In the months following this act of humanitarian outreach, a fierce debate arose, sparked by a set of violent incidents on New Year’s Eve 2015/16. Media reports repeated already established stereotypes about Muslim men and their disregard for women and women’s rights, branding them sexual offenders. German…

The exile after the Communist coup in 1948 in Czechoslovakia and the fate of Czechs and Slovaks abroad, who sought the return of freedom and democracy to their homeland are an integral part of Czech modern history. However, this phenomenon is still neglected and the general public has only fragmentary information about it.  Researchers are…

Peter Wells’ death on 18 February 2019 brings to an end a life of remarkable creativity, courage and originality. To historians Peter may be best known for his two recent books: The Hungry Heart (2012), a study of the life of William Colenso, and Journey to a Hanging (2014) a study of Rev Volkner and…

Members will recall that the NZHA has supported the New Zealand History Teachers’ Association call, last year, for greater attention to the teaching of this country’s colonial history in secondary schools. The History Teachers’ Association has now launched a petition; the link and the accompanying media statement from Waitangi Day follow.  Please feel free to…