New Zealand Historical Association

Category: News

  • AHA Statement on Marsden Fund cuts to Humanities Research Funding

    Australian Historical Association Statement on Marsden Fund cuts to Humanities Research Funding 9 December 2024

  • 2025 History Innovation Fund Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

    The School of Humanities Te Puna Aronui invites applications for the 2025 History Innovation Fund Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. This fellowship offers early career support for an outstanding recent PhD graduate in history, enabling them to undertake research and writing for publication, whilst also providing some teaching experience. The successful applicant will be accommodated within the…

  • Judith Binney Trust fellowship and awards announced

    Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of the Judith Binney fellowship and writing awards, and especially to NZHA members Elizabeth Bowyer and Cheryl Ware! I’m sure we are all looking forward to reading the monographs you are both preparing with the support of the writing awards.

  • NZHA Award for Contribution to New Zealand History

    At the recent NZHA Conference, the NZHA Award for Contribution to New Zealand History was awarded to Charlotte Macdonald. Charlotte has made a wide-ranging and significant contribution to New Zealand history, most recently in leading the discussions on the Future of History. The Executive was delighted to be able to recognise Charlotte for all her…

  • NZHA Prizes

    Best Postgraduate essay prize: Ereni Pūtere, ‘Te Aho Mutuka Kore: The Role of Weaving in Māori Memory’ Mary Boyd Prize for the best article on any aspect of New Zealand history published in a refereed journal: Martin George Holmes, “Rise and Fall of the Brotherhood of St Andrew in the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin: Charting…

  • Obituary for Frances Ann Porter (Fyfe), 1925-2022

    Frances Ann Porter (Fyfe) 2 May 1925 – 3 April 2022 Frances Porter (Fyfe), BA, MA (Hons), D.Litt, author of the prize winning biography of Jane Maria Atkinson, Born to New Zealand (1989) and a large number of works on nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand, has died, aged 96. Frances Porter’s prize winning biography of Jane…

  • Australia & New Zealand Children’s History Reading Group

    Following the success of the Society of the History of Childhood and Youth’s 11th Biennial Conference and the Children’s History Society UK’s ‘Speaking Up and Speaking Out’ Conference, Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the field of the history of children and youth are invited to join a new reading group.  The group will…