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Biography: Oliver, William Hosking

Links and sources

Websites

Landfall

Read reviews, articles and poems by W.H. Oliver in Landfall.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Read W.H. Oliver’s poems and articles in literary magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, and explore further sources, at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.

New Zealand Journal of History

Read articles by and relating to W.H. Oliver in the New Zealand Journal of History.

New Zealand Review of Books

Read reviews, articles and poems by W.H. Oliver in the New Zealand Review of Books.

Bibliography

W.H. Oliver. Literary correspondence and draft poems. MS-Papers-8743, Alexander Turnbull Library

A select bibliography of writings by W.H. Oliver.’ New Zealand Journal of History v.34 n.1, 2000, pp.165–170

Oliver, W.H. Claims to the Waitangi Tribunal. Wellington, 1991

Oliver, W.H. ‘The future behind us: the Waitangi Tribunal’s retrospective utopia.’ In Histories, power and loss: uses of the past – a New Zealand commentary. Ed. A. Sharp and P. McHugh. Wellington, 2001, pp.9–29

Oliver, W.H. Looking for the phoenix: a memoir. Wellington, 2002

Oliver, W.H. Poems 1946–2005. Wellington, 2005

Oliver, W.H. The story of New Zealand. London, 1960

Oliver, W.H. and B.R. Williams ed. The Oxford history of New Zealand. Oxford and Wellington, 1981

Orange, C. and P. Munz. ‘A tribute to Bill Oliver on the occasion of his 75th birthday.’ New Zealand Journal of History v.34 n.1, 2000, pp.162–165

Tennant, M. and C. Macdonald. ‘Obituary: W.H. Oliver, 14 May 1925–16 September 2015.’ New Zealand Journal of History, v.50 n.1, 2016, pp.153–157

How to cite this page

Margaret Tennant. 'Oliver, William Hosking', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/231507/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).