New Zealand Historical Association

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  • RE: NZHA Conference, lost property notice

    Dear NZHA conference delegates, Did you leave anything behind at the NZHA conference last week? We’ve found some lost property (including a laptop computer power cord) at the Dovedale conference venue. Please send us a message to nzhawebmaster@gmail.com.

  • RE: W. H Oliver Prize announcement

    The NZHA is pleased to announce the winner of the W. H. Oliver Prize to Tony Ballanytne, Otago University, for Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body published by Auckland University Press. Congratulations Tony! The W. H. Oliver Prize was awarded for the best book on any aspect of New Zealand…

  • Notice RE: Contemporary Women’s Writing – Essay Prize

    Contemporary Women’s Writing has launched a new annual Essay Prize to encourage and support postgraduates and early career scholars working on contemporary female literature. The winner will receive: Publication of their piece in Contemporary Women’s Writing One year’s free membership of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (including one year’s free subscription to Contemporary Women’s Writing)…

  • RE: Canterbury University’s regional round-up December 2015

    UC History update After repairs, we are back in our ‘History Building’ – although, despite protest, it is now also known as the ‘Popper Building’ after a certain philosopher. Gone are the glorious days of three floors devoted to History. The Jim Gardner memorial tree was ‘accidentally’ felled during renovations. But fear not, the Canterbury…

  • RE: Congratulations … history news

    Congratulations to NZHA Past-President Professor Catharine Coleborne who leaves the University of Waikato after 16 years to take up a new appointment as Head of School in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle in December 2015.     And, additional congratulations to another NZHA past-president Professor Giselle Byrnes who has…

  • RE: Ravaged Beauty Takes the Prize!

    Environmental historian Dr Catherine Knight has won the Palmerston North Heritage Trust’s inaugural award for the best work of history relating to the Manawatu. Ravaged Beauty: An Environmental History of the Manawatu was described by co-judge Jill White as an outstanding winner from the 2013-14 publications considered. Intensively researched and engagingly written, Ravaged Beauty is…

  • RE: short list announced for the W. H. Oliver prize in history

    For the first time …. The NZHA is running the W. H. Oliver prize for the best book on any aspect of New Zealand history published between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2015. The judges, Giselle Byrnes and Graeme Dunstall, evaluated the works on the quality of their research, the strength and effectiveness of…