FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
Vincent O'Malley
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The 2026 Featherston Booktown line-up is out!
Catch last year's Waikato War talk with Tom Roa, Joanna Kidman, James Belich and Vincent O'Malley – now available to watch online: youtube.com/watch?v=cge9bTANZyc
The Auckland Writers Festival programme is out!
Events with BWB authors include: Charlotte Macdonald, Vincent O'Malley, Asher Emanuel, Rebecca Macfie, Craig Renney and Max Harris.
Book now: www.bwb.co.nz/events/bwb-aut...
Vincent O’Malley writes that war in the Waikato between July 1863 and April 1864 ‘goes to the very core of who we are as a nation’. The crippling legacy was ...
Today . . . Between the Lines: Recent Books in NZ Studies
Author Charlotte Macdonald in conversation with @vomalley.bsky.social & Peter Cooke
When: Wed 6 May 4.10–5.10pm
Where: Stout Research Centre + Livestream
www.wgtn.ac.nz/stout-centre... @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social @bwbnz.bsky.social #history
Bridget Williams Books
Bridget Williams Books
Grateful to the protesters for reminding me I'm due for another booster soon.
The New Zealand Gazette Index is a real gamechanger that is going to open up this important resource for a whole range of people doing research on anything from genealogy through to Treaty claims, theses, or whatever. A bit like Papers Past has done for newspapers.
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My reflections on the Waitangi Tribunal's role in leading conversations on our history, fifty years after its establishment.
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"Far from being hierarchical, Māori decision-making bodies were far too democratic as far as some European observers were concerned, with entire communities of men, women and children involved in debating and deliberating on the issues of the day."
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I am taking part in a roundtable event at the Stout Research Centre on 6 May to discuss Charlotte Macdonald’s excellent recent book 'Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire'.
Details and zoom link here:
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The new Powershop app is a total trainwreck.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/powershop...
The New Zealand Gazette Index is a real gamechanger that is going to open up this important resource for a whole range of people doing research on anything from genealogy through to Treaty claims, theses, or whatever. A bit like Papers Past has done for newspapers.
buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
Vincent O'Malley
Back in 2022, when Archives New Zealand released its disastrous Collections search tool, many researchers despaired (or called for an inquiry). Collections...
The Waitangi Tribunal turned fifty last October, marking a half century since the passage of the Treaty of Waitangi Act in 1975. I posted about this at the...
I am taking part in a roundtable event at the Stout Research Centre on 6 May to discuss Charlotte Macdonald’s excellent recent book Garrison World: Redcoat...
Over the years I have spent a fair bit of time researching Māori institutions of self-government, particularly in the nineteenth century. My first book, way...
Back in 2022, when Archives New Zealand released its disastrous Collections search tool, many researchers despaired (or called for an inquiry). Collections...
