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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...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Silencing the past: reflections on remembering and forgetting

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Issues of public history continue to raise important questions on both sides of the Tasman. From the attacks on Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu...
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...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

A Hundred Little Treaties

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Click to enlarge Sharing my 2016 article for Mana Magazine about the Crown Purchase Deeds held at Archives New Zealand. Click on the im...
Monday, January 6, 2020

#AuthorsForFireys - signed books in aid of a good cause

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To support our Australian friends in this time of need, my #AuthorsForFireys offer is a signed copy of all three of my books shipped f...
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...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Joshua Clover on the commune

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Joshua Clover on the commune : “When I say commune, I really don’t mean what the common associations of that. I don’t mean the Paris Comm...
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...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Join the Labour History Project!

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LHP Bulletin No.75 is now out for our current members! It's also time to renew your membership for 2019-2020, or if you haven't ...
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 ...