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… and Midland Institute, studying politics, biography and history. Birmingham was at the centre of important political …
Type: Biography
… target of James Hawthorne's A dark chapter in New Zealand history (1869), and the range of derogatory labels applied …
Type: Biography
… being published than at any previous time in New Zealand’s history. A contributor to this profusion was the rise of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Poetry
… all religious denominations. There was, however, a long history of antagonism towards Masons from some religions, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men’s clubs
… difficult and challenging period in New Zealand's history, covering the great economic depression, the onset … and in 1946–47 he headed a royal commission on requests by Maori that they should be paid compensation for several …
Type: Biography
… widely in the classics as well as in English literature, history and astronomy. A natural linguist, he learnt Māori …
Type: Biography
… and fire. The greatest maritime disaster in New Zealand history, if not in her waters, was the fire on the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Shipwrecks
… alongside Devon, Oxford, York, Kent and Durham streets. History The town is on the site of the Te Āti Awa settlement …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough places
… her fiction and poetry Hyde had turned to Māori and Pākehā history and stories to find a distinctive New Zealand voice. …
Type: Biography
… love-hate affair with a strange fact of life and history called New Zealand’. 2 He recognised that New … and re-imagined historical figures in an alternative history of New Zealand. 5 This led him to conclude, ‘Let the …
Type: Biography
… committee (1953–64). His wide interests – including local history, socialism and literature – found expression in …
Type: Biography
… to accompany George Grey's briefer preface to Musings in Maoriland (1890). As a prolific poet and also a generous … affairs. The expensive de luxe edition of Musings in Maoriland did not sell well in Australia, and economic … the only New Zealand poets mentioned in the 1916 Cambridge history of English literature. A posthumous collection, Not …
Type: Biography
… Empire City showed himself to be a true son of the empire. History was being made, he said, as, for the first time, New …
Type: Biography
… children’s costume choices came largely from European art, history, literature and popular culture. Military and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Clothes
… centres, Egmont volcano and Fanthams Peak. Their complex history is still being unravelled. Activity at Egmont …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki region
… collaborated to form DNA in 1994. Foote’s fabric referenced history, the environment and politics among other things, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fashion and textile design
… of which he printed and published some 11 editions, many in Maori and Danish as well as English, was full of … from month to month of the typographical and literary history of our own colony'. He took some credit for the …
Type: Biography
… in Classics, modern languages, English literature and history. At mathematics he was hopeless. By 1867 his father … poets of his time. He also wrote an outstanding short history of his country, The long white cloud – Ao Tea Roa … largely unquestioned interpretation of New Zealand history until the 1950s, when it was still in print. It …
Type: Biography
… practice at the age of 70, and later began writing the history of St George’s Hospital. In 1973 the government of …
Type: Biography
… the Jindyworobak Anthology. For many years she worked on a history of early Auckland, writing in an army hut decorated …
Type: Biography