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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971454
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Tēnā koutou katoa,AS WE APPROACH the end of our term as editors we wish to take a moment for reflection. We have both had a long association with the journal before becoming editors in 2019 – Linda as an associate editor 1990–2000 and later member and then chair of its Board of Management, and Lyndon as book reviews editor from 2010 to 2019. We are proud to have long been part of the NZJH whānau, and in particular it has been a pleasure and privilege to work as editors with our fine contributors since 2019.The New Zealand Journal of History has had an outstanding history spanning almost sixty years to date, playing a significant role in making New Zealand history accessible to a wide audience both locally and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallEditorial Introduction2025-10-10text/htmlen-USEditorial Introduction2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®53842026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10In memoriam: Emeritus History Professor M.P.K. (Keith) Sorrenson
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971455
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WE ARE SAD to announce the passing of a past editor of the New Zealand Journal of History, University of Auckland Emeritus History Professor M.P.K. (Keith) Sorrenson, who died on 26 July 2025, aged 93. Keith was Associate Editor from the first issue of the journal in 1967 until 1986, and then Co-editor with Judith Binney from April 1987 to October 1995.Keith was born in 1932 and identified with his Māori (Ngāti Pukenga) and Pākehā heritage, shaping his lifelong scholarly interests in race relations and cultural interactions in New Zealand. He grew up on a farm in Upper Papamoa, Tauranga, and completed his master’s degree at the University of Auckland in 1955. His MA thesis on the purchase of Māori lands 1865–1892
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallIn memoriam: Emeritus History Professor M.P.K. (Keith) Sorrenson2025-10-10text/htmlen-USIn memoriam: Emeritus History Professor M.P.K. (Keith) Sorrenson2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®79122026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10The Making of New Zealand’s First Shopping Mall: New Urban Forms and Old Imperial Patterns
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971456
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ON 30 OCTOBER 1963 New Zealand’s first shopping mall — LynnMall — was ceremonially opened at New Lynn, which was then a burgeoning satellite town of West Auckland. Hordes of curious customers flocked to the grand opening which was billed as ‘the most exciting event in New Zealand’s retail history’ and the start of ‘a completely new era in suburban shopping’.1 Despite the publicists’ hyperbole this was indeed a nationally significant event. The mall project was widely reported in the national press, and the ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Leon Götz, who was also an Auckland region Member of Parliament. The development of the country’s first shopping mall was a self-consciously novel
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallThe Making of New Zealand’s First Shopping Mall: New Urban Forms and Old Imperial Patterns2025-10-10text/htmlen-USThe Making of New Zealand’s First Shopping Mall: New Urban Forms and Old Imperial Patterns2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®1205402026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10The Trout of Rotoaira: Colonial Law, Acclimatization and Fishing Rights, 1905–1959
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971457
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A fish swims in search of food. Their ancestors came from a river in California, but now they dwell in a small highland lake in the shadow of a volcano on an island far to the south of the Pacific Ocean. When their immediate forebears had arrived in the lake a decade and a half earlier, it had been full of food, but their voracity had changed that. The bugs, crayfish, and smaller fishes of the lake are still tasty prey, but they are now all much scarcer. Yet here is something promising on the surface, near the shore: an insect? The fish lunges. But they are shocked. A metal hook pierces their mouth, and within minutes they are suffocating on the bank, an alien figure looming over them. It raises a club and kills
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallThe Trout of Rotoaira: Colonial Law, Acclimatization and Fishing Rights, 1905–19592025-10-10text/htmlen-USThe Trout of Rotoaira: Colonial Law, Acclimatization and Fishing Rights, 1905–19592025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®884682026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Another Exception to the ‘Colonial Rule’? Controlling the Whitebait on the Arahura River
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971458
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THE IMPOSITION OF CROWN SOVEREIGNTY in Aotearoa New Zealand was a haphazard process.1 In some areas the Crown established itself quickly, such as early sites of European settlement, but in other regions the process was far more gradual.2 Te Tai Poutini/the West Coast of Te Waipounamu/the South Island is a particularly isolated region so that, although it was the subject of a number of Crown purchases by 1860, those resident could enjoy relative autonomy in certain aspects of life well into the late nineteenth century and even into the early twentieth century. This was certainly the case in the deep southern west coast towards Haast and the rohe of Ngāi Tahu hapū Kāti Mahaki, but it was also evident in the control
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallAnother Exception to the ‘Colonial Rule’? Controlling the Whitebait on the Arahura River2025-10-10text/htmlen-USAnother Exception to the ‘Colonial Rule’? Controlling the Whitebait on the Arahura River2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®797892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Separatist Presbyterianism in Colonial New Zealand: A Study of Scottish Highland Migration, Trans-Tasman Links, and Colonial Religious Culture
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971459
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TO UNDERSTAND THE RISE AND FALL of the First Free Presbyterian Church of Otago (FFPCO) from 1884 to 1887, the subject of this article, it is important to place it in the context of the global struggle between progressive and conservative interpretations of Protestant Christianity.1 During the 1800s, as Protestant churches responded to modernity, a clear division emerged between progressive and conservative believers. The former held that for Protestant churches to remain relevant, they must alter their doctrines to reflect modern intellectual and social concerns.2 As George A. Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk note in a 2021 study, this ‘acceptance of theological flexibility’ to appeal to ‘modern values’ has been a common
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallSeparatist Presbyterianism in Colonial New Zealand: A Study of Scottish Highland Migration, Trans-Tasman Links, and Colonial Religious Culture2025-10-10text/htmlen-USSeparatist Presbyterianism in Colonial New Zealand: A Study of Scottish Highland Migration, Trans-Tasman Links, and Colonial Religious Culture2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®903252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Photographs ‘both rare and valuable’: Introducing and Mapping Two Collections of Early Landscape Views from Southwestern Aotearoa New Zealand
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971460
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IN EARLY MARCH 1874, two photographers unexpectedly encountered each other in remote southwestern Aotearoa New Zealand. Both were undertaking photographic landscape surveys for profoundly different reasons and accompanied by very different companions. One of these photographers, Alfred Henry Burton, has become well-known to historians of photography, anthropologists, and scholars in other disciplines due to his pictorial style and the commercial success he experienced during his lifetime. Biographical details about the other photographer, George Smith, remain elusive. Other than his characterization within an 1875 travelogue as a ‘photographic artist’ who ‘most ably performed his part’, little information about him
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallPhotographs ‘both rare and valuable’: Introducing and Mapping Two Collections of Early Landscape Views from Southwestern Aotearoa New Zealand2025-10-10text/htmlen-USPhotographs ‘both rare and valuable’: Introducing and Mapping Two Collections of Early Landscape Views from Southwestern Aotearoa New Zealand2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®1662702026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Protestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c.1870–1950: Empire, Religion and Emotion by Hugh Morrison (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971461
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FROM A NEW ZEALAND VANTAGE POINT, one might be forgiven for imagining that Protestant Christian missions were principally a phenomenon of the nineteenth century – concentrated perhaps during the years before 1870. In fact, it was from the end of that period, when the main missions among Māori in New Zealand had declined, that global missionary numbers burgeoned. Hugh Morrison’s previous work has done much to elucidate New Zealand’s substantial contribution to this later wave of Protestant missionizing. In the present volume, his focus turns especially to the lives of ‘missionary children’, whose numbers dramatically increased from the late nineteenth century. Children were an essential element in the idealized
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallProtestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c.1870–1950: Empire, Religion and Emotion by Hugh Morrison (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USProtestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c.1870–1950: Empire, Religion and Emotion by Hugh Morrison (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®82862026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10A History of Christchurch Muslims: Integration and Harmony by Abdullah Drury (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971462
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IN A HISTORY OF CHRISTCHURCH MUSLIMS: Integration and Harmony, Abdullah Drury presents a long-overdue excavation of Muslim histories in Aotearoa New Zealand, with a particular focus on the South Island and Christchurch. As the title suggests, the book is about stories of coexistence and participation – how Muslim settlers, migrants and converts have contributed to, and been shaped by, New Zealand society. Yet it is also a quiet challenge to national myths, particularly the idea that Muslims are recent arrivals or cultural outsiders. Comprising six chapters and an epilogue, and covering more than 170 years, Drury’s book is a much-needed counter to the marginalization and erasure of Muslim lives in New Zealand
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallA History of Christchurch Muslims: Integration and Harmony by Abdullah Drury (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USA History of Christchurch Muslims: Integration and Harmony by Abdullah Drury (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®88282026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Preachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New Zealand by Susannah Grant (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971463
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PREACHERS, PASTORS, PROPHETS provides a telling evocation of how a small group can have a significant impact on society. As its subtitle suggests, Susannah Grant’s book focuses on the history of the Dominican Friars in New Zealand. On one level, it might appear a story of an organization’s rise and fall, because Dominican friars are no longer involved in active ministry. Grant demonstrates, however, that they have an ongoing legacy in New Zealand. She is eminently qualified to write their history, having written a history of the Dominican Sisters in New Zealand, and this book is the result of years of detailed research, drawing extensively on archival sources and over 30 interviews. The many images in the richly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallPreachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New Zealand by Susannah Grant (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USPreachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New Zealand by Susannah Grant (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®70562026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One, 1834–1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War by Derek Leask (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971464
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DEREK LEASK is a retired diplomat who has spent more than three decades cataloguing and collecting maps related to the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars. Many of the maps in question were identified by him during postings in Europe, whether from the National Archives in Kew, regimental archives elsewhere in Britain, or others held variously in Australia, France, or Germany. Some were reproduced in the British Parliamentary Papers or might have copies held at various repositories in New Zealand. But many others will be entirely unfamiliar to most historians of the New Zealand Wars. That is what makes this book (covering the period to 1864 but excluding the Waikato War, which will be covered in volume two) a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallAtlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One, 1834–1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War by Derek Leask (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USAtlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One, 1834–1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War by Derek Leask (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®68912026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Remembering and Becoming: Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand ed. by Anna Green and Megan Hutching (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971465
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THE BEAUTY of this oral history collection is its diversity and breadth of scope. Editors Anna Green and Megan Hutching introduce what is at stake for contributors: oral history illuminates new and deeper insights into historical subjects ‘impossible to reach through conventional written sources’, foregrounds ‘neglected historical agents’, and demonstrates deep and ‘continuing connections between past and present’ (pp.7–8).Continuities are central for indigenous scholars. Megan Pōtiki forefronts the devastation of colonization for her Kāi Tahu community at Ōtākou. Their journey of te reo revitalization has enabled Pōtiki and others to access ‘essential remnants of history and whakapapa’, to receive authentic Māori
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallRemembering and Becoming: Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand ed. by Anna Green and Megan Hutching (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USRemembering and Becoming: Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand ed. by Anna Green and Megan Hutching (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®82482026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Māori History: Essays from Te Pouhere Kōrero ed. by Aroha Harris and Melissa Matutina Williams (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971466
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THIS BOOK BRINGS TOGETHER select essays from the ten volumes of Te Pouhere Kōrero – Māori History, Māori People, spanning 1999 to 2023, with some essays featuring minor updates and amendments. First established in 1992, the collective Te Pouhere Kōrero brings together Māori working in the realm of history.As a doctoral student, I distinctly remember having to track down the hard copy versions of the journal and feeling like I had found the holy grail. Having this curated book would have provided exactly the starting point I needed to get to grips with Māori history in its multitude of forms. Although now digitized through Bridget Williams Books’ New Zealand History Collection, this publication is the perfect
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallMaranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Māori History: Essays from Te Pouhere Kōrero ed. by Aroha Harris and Melissa Matutina Williams (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USMaranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Māori History: Essays from Te Pouhere Kōrero ed. by Aroha Harris and Melissa Matutina Williams (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®64482026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10The Orange Order: A Global History by Patrick Coleman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971467
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THE ORANGE ORDER has been peculiarly persistent as a phenomenon in Northern Ireland and, to some extent, in other English-speaking countries. The explanation for that persistence is one of the key themes that Patrick Coleman explores in this work of meticulous scholarship. Coleman starts with the emphasis that disdain for the subject should not blind us to its significance.After a solid bibliographical review, enlivened by a colourful report of a Glasgow march, the chapters commence with a description of how Orange values thrive in the face of adversity. The book in six solid chapters surveys various aspects of the Orange Order; beginning with its origin and spread – and its organizational replication of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallThe Orange Order: A Global History by Patrick Coleman (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USThe Orange Order: A Global History by Patrick Coleman (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®59772026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge ed. by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971468
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THE CONCEPTS OF ‘Britishness’ and the ‘British World’ have served as foundational frameworks for historical inquiry, particularly in studies of empire and migration. The enduring legacy of the British Empire and the movement of settlers across its colonies continue to shape contemporary understandings of identity and transnationalism.This seventh volume in the Studies in Transnationalism series brings together a collection of essays that both acknowledge and celebrate Professor Carl Bridge’s pivotal role in advancing the British World as a significant historiographical approach. Notably, many contributors to this volume are former students of Bridge, reflecting the lasting influence of his scholarship and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallReflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge ed. by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USReflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge ed. by Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®77072026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10After Winter Comes the Summer: Pūhoi’s Musical Heritage in Song, Rhyme and Dance by Roger Buckton, Ralf Heimrath and Judith Williams (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971469
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MANY NZJH READERS driving north from Auckland will have taken the short detour off State Highway 1 to the village of Pūhoi, nestled on the banks of the Pūhoi River, perhaps stopping for a drink at the historic pub or venturing inside the picturesque wooden Church of Saints Peter and Paul. Situated on land originally owned by Ngāti Rongo, the settlement was founded in 1863 by around 80 German-speaking Catholic Bohemians from villages southwest of Plzeň (Pilsen). Critical to the community’s success in their new home was the generosity shown by local rangatira Te Hemara Tauhia and his people, who supplied the migrants with food and taught them how to survive in the bush.This book’s cover reflects the ongoing vibrancy
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallAfter Winter Comes the Summer: Pūhoi’s Musical Heritage in Song, Rhyme and Dance by Roger Buckton, Ralf Heimrath and Judith Williams (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USAfter Winter Comes the Summer: Pūhoi’s Musical Heritage in Song, Rhyme and Dance by Roger Buckton, Ralf Heimrath and Judith Williams (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®73242026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971470
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RESEARCHING AND WRITING on mental health, in any context, requires a great deal of care and consideration – something Jacqueline Leckie manages to succeed in showing throughout her book. It is evident that this is not only a well-researched piece of work, but is also something that Leckie has dedicated a great deal of time and thought towards. Engaging from the beginning, what shines through in the book is the focus on the stories of individuals who found themselves living under the ‘black cloud’ of depression or melancholy. Their voices are interwoven throughout the work and provide insight into the lived experiences of a variety of people throughout New Zealand. Leckie freely shares her own experience of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallOld Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USOld Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®71602026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Against the Odds: New Zealand’s First Women Doctors by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971471
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AGAINST THE ODDS begins with a preface by co-author Cynthia Farquhar, which outlines her motivation for writing the book. She recounts how, upon the death of her father, a doctor, the Waikato Times and the New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) both published obituaries. In contrast, when her mother, also a doctor, passed on, no such recognition was given. Unprompted, Farquhar wrote an obituary for her mother and submitted it to the NZMJ, which ultimately published it. Farquhar felt this experience highlighted the untold stories of women doctors, who, like her mother, had battled difficult circumstances to train and practise.The preface sets the tone for the book, which primarily consists of short biographies of women
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallAgainst the Odds: New Zealand’s First Women Doctors by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USAgainst the Odds: New Zealand’s First Women Doctors by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®69272026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971472
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ACADEMIC HISTORIANS rarely write well, or rather, many of us do write well but we rarely write page-turning, edge-of-your-seat histories of the ‘I wonder what will happen next’ kind. This is, in part, because we rarely have access to the source materials to be able to fill in enough of the historical detail to take the reader on a magical journey. It is also because we have been trained to write for an academic audience, employing a language that often distances us from our subjects and from those who read our work. As an academic historian, trained in the art of academic communication, it was a genuine treat and pleasure to read this book and to be taken on a page-turning journey through the life of an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallFrontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USFrontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®62322026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10An Uncommon Land: From an Ancestral Past of Enclosure Towards a Regenerative Future by Catherine Knight (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971474
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CATHERINE KNIGHT, one of only a handful of environmental historians now publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand, has written almost as many works as the rest of us combined. An Uncommon Land is her sixth book, following others on nature and wellbeing, environmental politics since Manapouri, New Zealand’s rivers, and the history of the Manawatū.These interests parallel many of my own, as does An Uncommon Land’s focus on histories of commons and property, which is the theme of Part 1: ‘Conquest and Enclosure’. Introducing this, Knight suggests she will examine common-pool resource management in other cultures, including Māori, through the work of economist Elinor Ostrom. However, Ostrom is mentioned in just one subsequent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallAn Uncommon Land: From an Ancestral Past of Enclosure Towards a Regenerative Future by Catherine Knight (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USAn Uncommon Land: From an Ancestral Past of Enclosure Towards a Regenerative Future by Catherine Knight (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®64082026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10History from the Grave: A History of the Havelock and the Pelorus District of Marlborough by Don K. Auckram (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971475
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THIS BOOK prompted me to think about why we label some works local or family history, and others academic or public history. Don Auckram writes that his book ‘chronicles the stories of the many strong characters who are part of the rapid growth of post 1840 New Zealand’ (p.9). It is centred on a fascinating area and is rich with biographical stories of the early inhabitants of the township of Havelock and Te Hoiere/Pelorus district. It is, however, light on interpretation. The main sources are newspaper and cemetery records, and it is not hard to hear the voices of obituary writers and imagine family members picking out the words to be inscribed on a gravestone.Family historians will recognize the format of short
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallHistory from the Grave: A History of the Havelock and the Pelorus District of Marlborough by Don K. Auckram (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USHistory from the Grave: A History of the Havelock and the Pelorus District of Marlborough by Don K. Auckram (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®60542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Challenging the Status Quo: A Political Memoir by Derek Quigley (review)
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POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES should be welcomed; they are relatively few and far between, and politicians do not make a habit of depositing papers into archives. Derek Quigley’s volume notably covers both the FPP (First Past the Post electoral system) years and MMP (Mixed Member Proportional, from 1996), not only encompassing his time at the heart of power as cabinet minister, 1978–1982, but also taking in his later consultancy roles, particularly his defence reviews, and as a founder of the ACT Party. His forty years or more of political engagement takes the reader through dramatic political changes and provides a very useful, lively review of a time rapidly passing into history. This work is characterized by its
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallChallenging the Status Quo: A Political Memoir by Derek Quigley (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USChallenging the Status Quo: A Political Memoir by Derek Quigley (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®69082026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10The Auckland Museum Podcast by Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971477
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THE AUCKLAND MUSEUM PODCAST (informally known as ‘The Amp’) began releasing episodes in 2024, on a mission to amplify ‘the incredible stories from our collections, our mahi [work] and our place in the Pacific’. The episodes are hosted by various Museum staff members, and call on a wide range of interviewees, from other staff to exhibition designers, to members of the public. For this review, I listened to the first ten episodes, each one between 30 and 50 minutes long. Each episode is themed around a different aspect of the Museum’s diverse collection. For example, the first episode, ‘Soldier, Curator, Monuments Man’, tells the story of Sir Gilbert Archey, the one-time director of the Museum, and his work in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallThe Auckland Museum Podcast by Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USThe Auckland Museum Podcast by Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®94802026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10Force Of Nature Te Aumangea o te ao Tūroa: A Conservation History of Forest & Bird, 1923–2023 by David Young and Naomi Arnold (review)
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THIS BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED and desirable book marks the centenary of the Forest & Bird Society as New Zealand’s longest established and best-known public conservation organization. It is described as ‘an environmental history of Aotearoa through the eyes of its members’, and ‘an insiders’ view of some of its pivotal campaigns’, drawing on the society’s own archives, as well as records held in local repositories (p.6). It is organized in two parts. David Young has written the first five chapters and a prelude of ‘what went before’. Naomi Arnold has contributed the last four chapters and a conclusion on what is described as ‘the emergence of the modern-day conservation movement’ (p.7).The story in outline is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/818/image/coversmallForce Of Nature Te Aumangea o te ao Tūroa: A Conservation History of Forest & Bird, 1923–2023 by David Young and Naomi Arnold (review)2025-10-10text/htmlen-USForce Of Nature Te Aumangea o te ao Tūroa: A Conservation History of Forest & Bird, 1923–2023 by David Young and Naomi Arnold (review)2025-10-102025TWOProject MUSE®67632026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-10-10