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Showing posts with label WW100. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW100. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2020

‘Dead Letters’ wins the 2020 Bert Roth Award

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From the LHP website : Jared Davidson is the winner of the 2020 Bert Roth Award for Labour History for his book, Dead Letters: Censorship an...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Covid lockdowns give us a chance to reimagine Anzac Day and consider war more honestly

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A wreath made from fallen Kauri tree leaves commemorates Anzac Day in a driveway in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty...
Monday, February 3, 2020

'Dead Letters' longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

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Last week I was happy to have finally finished my article on the 1843 Nelson labourers' revolt . To learn that Dead Letters had made...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

'From the Bottom Up': Review of Dead Letters

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Review of Dead Letters  by Emma Jean Kelly and Matariki Roche from the LHP Bulletin 76, August 2019. This incredible book almost mak...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Some new reviews of 'Dead Letters'

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Dead Letters has been out in the world for a number of months now, so it's been great to read some new reviews in the last few wee...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Dead Letters on the Educating for Social Change podcast

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It was neat to be interviewed for Wellington Access Radio's Educating for Social Change podcast last week, covering Dead Letters , la...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Looking for treasure in the censor’s archive: Jared Davidson’s 'Dead Letters' - review by Jeff Sparrow

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This review of Dead Letters by Jeff Sparrow was originally published by Overland . Jeff Sparrow is a writer, broadcaster and editor. Hi...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The war that never ended: public history for the present

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A success . That’s the verdict passed by New Zealand’s official First World War commemoration programme (WW100) on their own commemora...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Dead Letters reviewed by the Otago Daily Times

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"A fascinating insight into a time and way of thinking which may seem far distant but is much closer to today than we may have supp...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

New Zealand's 'dead' letters brought to life

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Click to enlarge In late April and early May 2019, nine NZME regional newspapers ran an interview with me about Dead Letters . Click on ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Dead Letters, Great War Stories

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Image by Glenn Humphries On 24 April 2019 I gave a talk with Anna Cottrell at the National Library's Wellington auditorium. The even...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

'Dead Letters' out now!

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Image by Dani Henki I'm very happy to note that my latest book, Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914 - 1920 ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

'Dead Letters' out 7 March 2019

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I'm very happy to say that my latest book, Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920 published by Otago Unive...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I

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First published in Overland Literary Journal , November 2018. In 1918, after four years of slaughter, deprivation and hardship, th...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Update on my book, Dead Letters

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This is a quick update on my forthcoming book, Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920 , to be published by O...