Story: History and historians

More links and websites

• Island stories

  The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection has Chris Hilliard’s useful masters of arts thesis from the University of Auckland in 1997: ‘Island stories: the writing of New Zealand history 1920–1940’.

• New Zealand Journal of History

  All issues of this important journal from 1967 (apart from the most recent two years, which are embargoed) are available online.

• National Oral History Association of New Zealand Te Kete Kōrero-a-Waha o Te Motu

  The organisation for oral historians.

• Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa

  PHANZA is association for New Zealand’s professional historians.

More suggestions and sources

• Beaglehole, Tim. A life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand scholar. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006.

• Belich, James. ‘Colonization and history in New Zealand.’ In The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. 5, Historiography, edited by Robin Winks, 182–193. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

• Gibbons, Peter. ‘Non-fiction.’ In The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English, edited by Terry Sturm, 31–118. 2nd ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.

• Phillips, Jock. ‘Of verandahs and fish and chips and footie on Saturday afternoon: reflections on 100 years of New Zealand historiography.’ New Zealand Journal of History 24, no. 2 (1990), pp. 118–134.

• Sinclair, Keith. ‘New Zealand.’ In The historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth: trends, interpretations, and resources, edited by Robin W. Winks, 174–195. Durham: Duke University, 1966.