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Posted on October 28 2025
Guosheng Xie 谢国升 is from Guangdong, China. He studied ancient Chinese history in Chengdu and Shanghai for seven years. With a strong interest in Pacific history, he applied for the doctoral program at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. His doctoral research examines the historical development of Chinese labour and enterprise in Aotearoa New Zealand from the 1860s
Posted on September 21 2021
Malcolm McKinnon is an adjunct associate professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. He taught New Zealand history and international relations in the History Department at Victoria University of Wellington between 1979 and 1990; he has taught courses and supervised research in the School over the last fifteen years. He published a landmark study of
Posted on September 21 2021
Dr. John E. Martin has researched and written about New Zealand history for forty years. Before becoming parliamentary historian he worked in the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs and taught in universities. His publications include rural and labour history, the history of science and engineering, and social and political history. His books include The Forgotten Worker (1990),
Posted on September 21 2021
An archivist by day and author by night, Jared Davidson is a writer based in Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. His work explores capitalism, state power and the environment through the lives of people overlooked by traditional histories – from working-class radicals of the early twentieth century to convicts of the nineteenth. Jared has published five books and edited others,
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
Posted on September 21 2021
I have skills in economics, economic history, statistics, public policy and political economy and have worked in periods from 650m years ago to contemporary times. Among my publications are (1981) Policy and Pragmatism: Social Security in the Seventies. (1983) Income Distribution in New Zealand. (1996) In Stormy Seas: The Post-War New Zealand Economy. (1996) The Commercialisation of New Zealand. (1999)