New Zealand Historical Association

Category: News

  • Call for names for expert list for Magna Carta/rule of law/right in New Zealand

    The Magna Carta 800 Committee for New Zealand is creating a list of experts in New Zealand who can speak about Magna Carta, the rule of law and rights, and associated topics including more current applications such as a Magna Carta for the Earth or a Digital Magna Carta. If the media or an organization…

  • The New Zealand Historical Association acknowledges with sadness the passing of Dr Apirana Tuahae Kaukapakapa Mahuika and pays tribute to this distinguished and outstanding man.

    As a scholar and teacher Apirana Mahuika played a leading role in the intellectual life of Aotearoa-New Zealand over many decades. A towering figure in Ngati Porou, Mahuika was an influential thinker in shaping understandings of New Zealand and New Zealanders, Maori and Pakeha. In November 2011 Mahuika gave the inaugural Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikaheke…

  • Regional Round-up: News from Manatū Taonga / Ministry for Culture & Heritage

    Contributed by David Green & Nancy Swarbrick. Most members of the History Group are involved in projects related to the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War. We produced two significant books in late 2013. Damien Fenton collaborated with Caroline Lord, Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge on the lavishly illustrated New Zealand and…

  • 2015 NZHA Conference Dates

    The 2015 NZHA conference will be held at the University of Canterbury from Wed 2nd – Fri 4th December. Please note these dates in your diary. We’ll provide you with more details RE conference theme, call for papers etc early in 2015.

  • Regional Round-up: VUW History and environs

    Contributed by Cybele Locke In May, Māori Postdoctoral Fellow Arini Loader and Professor Charlotte Macdonald brought together an outstanding group of scholars for a symposium entitled ‘Fast History, Slow Reading: he pukapuka tataku tenei’ to consider the lives of historical texts and their interpretation.  The symposium was supported by the New Zealand India Research Institute,…

  • Regional Round-up: Waikato

    This marks the first of a series of ‘regional round-ups’ from around New Zealand. Our goal is to publish one every month or so, and produce a newsletter containing all contributions at the end of each ‘cycle’. Regional round-ups will alternate with regular blog posts as news and contributions come to hand. Contributed by Dr Nēpia…

  • Request for information!

    Dear historians, can someone help? …we’ve just had correspondence from a researcher who is ….. …. trying to track down the descendants of Captain Francis R. Webb. He was the American Consulate of Zanzibar in 1871 when H.M. Stanley arrived to look for Dr. Livingstone. A few years later, he became the American Consulate for…