In the April 2026 issue of Phanzine, heritage professional Ann McEwan writes of the challenges and rewards of being involved in one of the many volunteer-run charitable trusts that make house museums accessible to the public around the country; Malcolm McKinnon considers the proposed new Year 0 to 10 social science curriculum, and questions whether students are well served by its planned global history content; Elizabeth Cox discusses the legacy of the Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant scheme which came to a close at the end of last year; Catherine Field-Dodgson discusses her book, Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris, co-authored with Michele Leggott, and the miraculous re-emergence of a lost painting after the book had gone to print, but before its launch; and Bee Dawson shares her own history of being a historian, particularly of commissioned histories.
Read this issue: Phanzine, April 2026