New Zealand Historical Association

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  • New book on Dunedin’s Chinese garden: “Lan Yuan 蘭園 A Garden of Distant Longing”

    The Shanghai Museum and the Dunedin Chinese Garden Trust have just published a book on Dunedin’s Chinese garden: LAN YUAN 蘭園: A GARDEN OF DISTANT LONGING.  Written by Dr James Beattie, a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Waikato, and Duncan Campbell, of the Australian National University, the book features poetry by Sue…

  • Australian & New Zealand Studies Association of North America 2014 Annual Conference

    *CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PANELS* ANZSANA will hold its annual conference at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) located in Austin, Texas, during 6-8 February 2014. ANZSANA is a multidisciplinary organization and welcomes papers on any aspect of Australian or New Zealand studies as well as comparative studies involving Australia, New Zealand, and…

  • 2013 Ernest Scott Prize shortlist

    The Ernest Scott prize is an annual award administered by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. It is awarded to work “based upon original research which is, in the opinion of the examiners, the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation.” Founded…

  • ‘New Historical Perspectives on New Zealand and the Sea’

    New Zealand Historical Association Conference Maritime History Workshop University of Otago Saturday, 23 November 2013 In recent years there has been a marked ‘sea turn’ in historical scholarship as oceans are approached as spaces that link rather than divide colonies, nations and continents. Oceanic history has opened up new ways of thinking about the world…

  • NZ Music Month and “the national anthem of Patea”

    I have a band of men and all they do is play for me They come from miles around to hear them play a melody Beneath the stars my ten guitars will play a song for you And if you’re with the one you love this is what you do… What better way to mark…

  • The Ian Wards Prize and the Michael Standish Prize

    The NZHA would like to congratulate the 2012 joint winners of the Ian Wards Prize: Charlotte Macdonald for Strong, Beautiful and Modern. National fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935 – 1960 and Robert Peden for Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands. The Ian Wards Prize…

  • News from the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

    Steve Behrendt finishes as Head of Programme in June 2013, to be succeeded by Kate Hunter. Giacomo Lichtner continues as Postgraduate Coordinator. Charlotte Macdonald and Cybèle Locke are honours coordinators, and Adrian Muckle organizes the Programme’s Friday lunchtime seminar series. If you interested in giving a seminar please contact Adrian. Our two major publications from…