New Zealand Historical Association

Category: Research

  • Conference Notification

    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE RED CROSS MOVEMENT Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 9-11 September 2016 This conference acknowledges the growing number of historians and researchers working in the rapidly expanding area of the history of the international Red Cross Movement. With its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, this global humanitarian organization includes the International…

  • Request for contact RE hand coloured photography

    Authors Peter Alsop and Peter Ireland are working on an extensive book on hand coloured photography (400+ pages), and are keen to ensure the best of NZ’s hand coloured photography is included. They would appreciate contact from NZHA members holding images (of any subject matter) that could desirably be included in the book. Previous publications…

  • Does anyone have info on Ceasar the NZ war dog?

    Out of curiosity … .. and because we teach Kiwi culture and explore subjects such as moko (facial tattoo), beauty, war and nationalism, we’d like to know more about Ceasar the NZ war dog. We know that dogs were used to rescue wounded soldiers from ‘No- Man’s-Land at the Battle of the Somme during the…

  • 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…

  • “Brothers and Sisters in Arms: Historicising Indigenous Military Service” Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

    CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference: “Brothers and Sisters in Arms: Historicising Indigenous Military Service” Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 25-26 June 2015. This conference is part of the ARC-funded project ‘Serving our Country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia http://www.ourmobserved.com/events/ The centenary of the First World War has generated…

  • I Nga Ra o Mua: The Days Before Us

    New Zealand History Teachers 2014 Conference Dilworth School Auckland, Monday 29 & Tuesday 30 September 2014. Follow on Twitter: @thedaysbeforeus Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NZHTAConference 2014 A forum of teachers, educators, historians, researchers and community activists to engage and interact over teaching New Zealand history. Further information is available on this flyer NZHTA-Conference-2014

  • “PEACE, NOT WAR, SHALL BE OUR BOAST”

    HISTORICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON PEACE AND CHRISTIANITY IN NEW ZEALAND Victoria University of Wellington, 18-20 November 2015 The conference will be hosted at Victoria University of Wellington, but supported by a number of organisations. In 2014, centennial commemorations of the Great War begin; 2015 will have special significance for New Zealanders, in light…