New Zealand Historical Association

Category: News

  • An update from Prof. Tom Brooking, NZHA President

    Dear NZHA Members, We have been busy here at Otago even if you have not heard a lot from us recently.  First, we have spent some time revamping our association’s website, which has a blog embedded in it.  This is now up and running (obviously!) and will allow us to quickly highlight matters of moment,…

  • Deadline for submission to the Journal of New Zealand Studies

    The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington has announced that the submission deadline for the 2013 issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies is 1 July 2013. Papers are welcome from any discipline and on any topic, and all submissions go through a process of anonymous peer review.…

  • Kiwi ex-pat Sir Archibald McIndoe to be honoured with a statue in Sussex

    Sir Archibald McIndoe (1900-1960) was the grandson of two families with very deep links to colonial Otago.  His father’s business, founded in 1893, was a feature of Dunedin’s commercial landscape until 2008.  His mother, a Wellingtonian, was a sister of the famous composer of Alfred Hill, thus both were of Hills Hats fame.  Archibald attended…

  • NZHA 2013 Biennial Conference – CALL FOR PAPERS

    In the run-up to our eagerly anticipated 2013 conference, the organising committee is now calling for papers. The conference committee welcomes panel proposals, which group three or four papers together with a chair. We are especially keen to receive panel proposals that bring senior scholars and postgraduate students together. The conference organisers are also supportive…

  • Winston Peters rallies against distortion of history

    All you “liberal do-gooders” in the “ivory towers of our universities” and “public sector” can relax, if only momentarily.  Despite what this headline suggests, New Zealand First leader, the Rt Hon Winston Peters, is not having a go at “treaty mumbo jumbo and political correctness”.  This time it’s Ben Affleck’s turn for ‘six of the…

  • Legacies of British Slaveholding

    It is generally well known, and celebrated, that Britain played a key role in formally ending the slave trade in 1807 and emancipating slaves throughout the British Empire from 1833.  Indeed, in October 2012, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, described Britain as “the country that…invented the computer, defeated the Nazis, started the web, saw…

  • Adele Perry on #IdleNoMore, Histories, and Historians

    Adele Perry is the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History at the University of Manitoba.  She recently gave a talk on the #IdleNoMore  movement, a grassroots, non-hierarchal, feminist and environmentalist social movement founded by women, which originated among Canada’s indigenous peoples.  This talk has now been reproduced online. More than simply resonating with…