Posted on March 15 2024
I am the Director of Arque Research, a specialist research consulting company that helps businesses, institutions and cultural organisations use history to connect with staff, customers, stakeholders and communities. I have skills, knowledge and experience gained over a 30-year career spanning academic and applied research, journalism and marketing, and university teaching and postgraduate supervision. My expertise includes legal history, urban
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Posted on September 20 2023
I am Elizabeth (Libby). I’ve completed my MA and PhD in History at Te Herenga Waka Victoria – University of Wellington. In 2024 I received a Judith Binney Writing Award which I am using to adapt my PhD thesis, ‘Women Contracting in Law c. 1840–1920: Gender and Settler Colonialism in the Courts of Aotearoa New Zealand’, for publication. I have
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Posted on September 21 2021
Dr Vaughan Wood is an environmental historian with a longstanding interest in the environmental history of New Zealand during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a postdoctoral fellow on the Marsden Fund project Empires of Grass, as well as the Canterbury History Foundation Community Historian for 2008. He is the author of Akaroa Cocksfoot: King of Grasses (2014), and has
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Posted on September 21 2021
Phil Lascelles is a museum professional with a strong background in digital humanities, history, and information management. He currently works at MTG Hawke’s Bay, focusing on copyright, intellectual property, and collection documentation. Phil has a PGDip in Museum Studies, an MA in History, and a PGCert in Digital Humanities. He is also a trustee of the Hawke’s Bay Digital Archives
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Posted on September 21 2021
Queen’s Service Medal Qualifications: M.A. (Hons), Dip.Ed, Dip.Teaching, Dip. Recreation and Sport. Author of 37 books on the social and industrial history of the Buller and West Coast regions. Teacher for many years, now retired. Involved in many local institutions and Associations.
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Posted on September 21 2021
Having completed a BA (History and Education) in 1999 and a BA Honours (History) in 2005, at the University of Auckland, and worked in the disability sector for a number of years, I went back to university on a doctoral scholarship. In 2009, I completed my PhD, ‘Assessing Gender in the Construction of Scottish Identity c.1286-c.1586’, which was conferred in
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Posted on September 21 2021
I have more than 30 years’ experience as a professional historian and writer, including terms of employment with the Waitangi Tribunal and Te Ara – the online encyclopedia of NZ. Since 2014 I have been a freelance historical researcher, writing many reports for both public sector clients such as Te Arawhiti and the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, and others such
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Posted on September 21 2021
As a historian, researcher, writer, literary scholar, linguist and translator, my work focuses on the tensions at the intersections (both geographical and textual) of contact between Indigenous and settler populations in the colonial and postcolonial Francophone and Anglophone worlds. I am especially interested in creolisation and anti-colonial resistance and my writing reflects critically on trans-imperial networks, horizontal mobilities, slavery and forced
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Posted on September 21 2021
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Posted on September 21 2021
Hello. I am a Dunedin-based historian but tend to travel to where the work takes me. I have an MA in history from Otago University and a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury University. I am the author of more than 30 non-fiction books on New Zealand history, biography, culture and society. I am always looking for interesting new projects, large
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Posted on September 21 2021
My research background is in social history, specifically deathways and social attitudes towards disposal of the dead in New Zealand and across the Anglosphere. I specialise in recovering the lives, and deaths, of everyday people otherwise lost in the archives. My PhD ‘Burning God’s Own: A Social History of Modern Cremation in New Zealand 1874-1946’ (2023) represents the first social
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Posted on September 21 2021
Dr Grace Bateman (PhD Otago, History). Dunedin – based historian. nzskatinghistory.org.nz I am available for research into a diverse variety of aspects of society and culture. I have a wide range of experience in researching and writing many different topics using different methodologies, both as project lead, and as a research assistant. Two examples of this diversity are my recent
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Posted on September 21 2021
I work for the Marlborough District Council, where I manage the heritage unit. I have extensive experience in both historical research and teaching, specialising in New Zealand social and political history, with a particular focus on the first half of the 20th century. I am well-versed in self-directed research and have led numerous independent projects. My areas of expertise include
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Posted on September 21 2021
I am an experienced social and architectural historian, having worked as a historian and heritage professional for over two decades. I am available for short term contracts, and can assist with Archives research too. My business is Bay Heritage Consultants. I have completed hundreds of historical reports, heritage assessments and conservation plans about Wellington buildings and sites, as well as
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Posted on September 21 2021
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