The Meeting Place - A New Zealand History Blog

Thanks to all those who attended the launch last night. It was a great occasion. Here are a few photos of the evening.

  Over the next six weeks, BWB has a range of events taking place around New Zealand: Wednesday 24 September, Wellington Book launch:  Vince...

MEDIA RELEASE 22 September 2014 Devastating impact of the Waikato War revisited by leading historian  At a time of great focus on World War One, a new book by prominent historian Dr Vincent O’Malley draws startling comparisons with the Waikato War of 1863–64. Taking a new approach to analysing evidence on the war, O’Malley’s book challenges previous assumptions made about casualties suffered by the Waikato tribes. ‘This new approach to estimating casualty figures suggests that the scale of the losses suffered by the Waikato tribes was much greater than previously thought,’ says O’Malley. ‘Indeed there is every indication that the numbers killed a...

The JD Stout Lecture 2014 Vincent O’Malley JD Stout Fellow 2014 will present The Waikato War: Myth, History and the ‘Art of Forgetting’ Collective memories, like individual ones, can be selective. We sometimes choose what we remember. And those choices are often instructive. But as scholars have also noted, there is an art to forgetting. It can be more than simply the absence of memory. This talk surveys how the Waikato War has been remembered, or forgotten, historically and asks what this reveals about New Zealand’s foundational myths and narratives. Date:               Wednesday 24 September 2014 Time:               4.10pm – 5.30pm Venue:             McLaurin Lecture Theatre 103 – North end of Cotton Building main corr...

Applications are now open for the John David Stout Fellowship for 2015. Based at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, the Fellowship provides a great opportunity for authors and scholars to research and write on their chosen topic within an interdisciplinary academic environment. Here is some more information on the Fellowship from the Stout Research Centre website: The Fellowship The Fellowship is funded by the Stout Trust. It has been created to foster research in New Zealand society, history and culture by providing the Fellow with an opportunity to work within an academic environment for the year of tenure. The Fellowship, which was established in 1985, has resulted in a body of influential publications in the field of New Zealand studies. The Fellowship is open to researchers in any area of study relating to New Zealand society, history or culture, but is not intended to fund the writing of a novel, play or other li...

I have a new book out in September. Here's some information on it from the Bridget Williams Books webpage Print publication: Sep 2014 Pages: 284 RRP: $49.99 ISBN: 9781927277539 ISTC: A022014000005561 DOI: 10.7810/9781927277539 Beyond the Imperial Frontier is an exploration of the different wa...