What is the Future of Our Past?
On the 3rd of February 2021, the Ministry of Education released a first draft of their compulsory New Zealand history curriculum for...
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Heidi Chapman
- Oct 23, 2020
- 5 min
Celebrating the Queen's Birthday in June
“At an earlier period, perhaps a century ago, my predecessor in office would have sought to lay this volume humbly at the foot of the...
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Bryony Ammonds-Smith
- Oct 12, 2020
- 5 min
The History of Voting in New Zealand
So there’s this election coming up, you might have heard about it? Maybe you have driven past a defaced sign, or gotten a tailored ad...
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Michaela Selway
- Sep 25, 2020
- 6 min
The Influence of the Linguistic Turn on the Teaching of New Zealand History
Huirapa Marae, Karitane. Image from the University of Otago article, Te Ao Māori / The Māori world. In many cases, the only gateway...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Sep 2, 2020
- 17 min
Still Reacting to the Past!!!
Introduction Dr Sara Buttsworth In 2020 our experiment of “transliterating” the history of Te Tiriti using the RTTP pedagogy continued...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Feb 6, 2020
- 4 min
Commemorating Waitangi Day in the Twentieth Century.
The Treaty of Waitangi is an integral and founding document in our nation’s history. Signed on the 6th of February 1840 between...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Nov 15, 2019
- 5 min
Remembering New Zealand’s Wars…and Peace
War and conflict between Māori and Pākehā currently dominate popular narratives of New Zealand’s nineteenth-century history. The New...
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Michaela Selway
- Nov 5, 2019
- 6 min
The Violation of Article Two in Te Tiriti o Waitangi: The Taranaki Land Wars and Parihaka
Article Two in the Treaty of Waitangi, in which the sole right of land purchasing was given to the Crown, was included in Te Tiriti
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Michaela Selway
- Oct 18, 2019
- 7 min
Notable Women in History You May Not Know Of But Should
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born Cecilia Helena Payne on May 10, 1900. She was born in Wendover, England to...
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Kathryn Cammell
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
Reacting to the Past: Part Two
This is part two of the ‘Reacting to the Past’ series, where students share their experiences playing a Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of...
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Kathryn Cammell
- Jul 9, 2019
- 4 min
Reacting to the Past: Part One
This year in the Tertiary Foundation Certificate’s ‘Foundation History’ course (HISTORY 91F), a team of researchers field tested their...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Jun 28, 2019
- 4 min
What is Matariki and Why Should I Care?
Ushering in the new year has always been a time for celebration and festivities across many different countries around the world. From...
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Kathryn Cammell
- May 18, 2019
- 5 min
Book Review: Barbara Brookes, ‘A History of New Zealand Women’
The history of women in New Zealand is a rapidly changing field of historiography. As new feminist theories, activist movements, and...
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Kathryn Cammell
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
New Zealand Music Month: Protest Anthems in the 1980s
Today marks the beginning of New Zealand Music Month, a celebration launched in 1997 with the purpose of improving the visibility and...
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Michaela Selway
- Apr 26, 2019
- 5 min
Mythologising ANZAC: What Are We Celebrating?
In his 2003 ANZAC address, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard stated that ANZAC Day ‘is about the celebration of some wonderful...
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Kathryn Cammell
- Feb 13, 2019
- 5 min
Ruth Ross and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The general principles that form the foundation of contemporary academic understandings of the Treaty were developed through the...
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Kathryn Cammell
- Feb 6, 2019
- 5 min
Contested Histories: Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day, observed annually in Aotearoa New Zealand on 6 February, marks the first signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840. Te...
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