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… was central to the reappraisal of New Zealand’s colonial history which began in the 1970s. In his landmark book A … in the South Pacific. He was a practitioner of ‘participant history’, in which historians apply the lessons of their … broadcaster Henare Te Ua, Ward decided to research the history of the East Coast Māori Trust, with financial …
Type: Biography
… is remarkable for its variety of landscapes. It has a long history of Māori habitation, and sealers and whalers also …
Type: Story Front
… early 1879 as the compiler and writer of an official Māori history. The task took over 10 years, from 10 April 1879 to … in six volumes between 1887 and 1890 as The ancient history of the Māori, his mythology and traditions . In 1890 … works, which White regarded as popularisations of Māori history, were written in an attempt to recoup goldfield …
Type: Biography
… it vary widely in terms of age, employment, health and life history. Sometimes people between 65 and 80 are referred to … have widely differing life experiences and beliefs. Living history books Older people in the early 21st century have lived through some key events in New Zealand’s history – the 1930s depression , the 1931 Hawke’s Bay …
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Part of story: Older people
… gained distinction as a scholar of British and New Zealand history and was part of a tradition of poet-historians, with … that ‘W.H’ Oliver, the mature scholar, had a vision of history informed by the local and regional and social – … his studies that Oliver developed a competing passion for history, particularly under the tuition of Professor Fred …
Type: Biography
… Many Wairarapa towns have small history museums, and antique and craft shops. Museums … collection). Aratoi Aratoi: the Wairarapa Museum of Art and History opened in Masterton in 2002. The complex, which has … and collects art and objects relating to the region’s history. It acts as kaitiaki (guardian) to a growing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wairarapa region
… and sometimes, a boat chugging to a mussel farm.’ 2 Local history There are local histories of all Marlborough’s … of which the most impressive is J. M. Sherrard’s 1966 history of Kaikōura county. Two provincial histories are … of a province (1900) and Alister McIntosh’s centennial history Marlborough: a provincial history (1940) . Veteran …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… tohunga, Moihi Te Mātorohanga and Nēpia Pōhūhū. History or mystery: interpreting traditions The meaning of … the first displayed an excessive tendency to see myth as history, the second tended to see myth too much as mystery. … within New Zealand waters. This might explain the mix of history and symbolism in the accounts. Canoe traditions and …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… published a paper in 1863 in which he argued that the history of Ireland showed ‘how little is to be effected … chiefs and vested in the Crown shortly afterwards. The history of each confiscation became very confused and often …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… with government practice over the course of New Zealand history. Alienation of Māori land Māori lost land to the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… from 1972, is the liveliest of a number of local papers. History The Otago Museum was established in 1868 and moved … as well as a host of local histories. The centennial history project in the 1940s and 1950s saw no fewer than 18 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Otago region
… Nga mahi a ng a t upuna and Ng a mo teatea, White’s Ancient history of the Maori, a range of Māori newspapers and the collected …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… ( Wrestling with the angel , 2000) and his popular Penguin History of New Zealand (2003). An updated edition of Ranginui Walker’s 1990 history of Māori, Ka whawhai tonu m atou , appeared from the … proportion of New Zealand non-fiction deals with natural history. One of New Zealand’s most respected writers in this …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… opened in 2008. Historians A rich source of Whanganui history from the 1840s to 1870s is found in the Reverend … Old Whanganui (1915) is a valuable resource on Māori history and on European settlement until 1847. Downes also wrote History of and guide to the Wanganui River (1921). Other …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui region
… New Zealand archives amalgamated in 2014) and the Oral History and Sound collection at the Alexander Turnbull … (army), Devonport (navy) and Wigram (air force). Family history centres The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormon Church) operates 43 family history centres in New Zealand. Many of the centres are …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Archives
… as an essential step in furthering his study into Tainui history – an interest ignited through his involvement with … Society since 1936. From the mid 1940s he had researched Maori whakapapa, obtaining information from fellow society … of meticulous research published a booklet in 1965 entitled Maori settlement of the Waikato district. This was revised …
Type: Biography
… As the genealogy (family tree) is collated, the family history can be researched, the stories discovered and told. … which facilitate the recording of genealogical and family history information, and yield a rich variety of charts, …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… and began to impart his knowledge to him. This included the history of Ngā Rauru, Taranaki and Whanganui, waiata, … of the forbidding Rākei. His growing knowledge in Taranaki history and whakapapa made Ruka a respected participant in … as a tohunga and the authority on Ngā Rauru and Taranaki history. His parents, adherents of the Rātana church, did …
Type: Biography
… a number of papers on Māori subjects. His South Island Maoris: a sketch of their history and legendary lore (1898) was based on a paper … of his informants. He also contributed the section on Māori history to H. C. Jacobson's Tales of Banks Peninsula (1884). …
Type: Biography
… part of his education, especially in literature and history, came from his father, who was a voracious reader. … extensively in the press – about Pacific and Australasian history and became a major user of Sydney’s Mitchell … Polynesian Society. His journalism increasingly focused on history and Māori affairs. He wrote four more books over the …
Type: Biography