Jared Davidson

Review by Greg Fleming of The History of a Riot for Kete Books . BWB Texts specialise in publishing “short books on big subjects.” That inc...

One of my own home-brews - perhaps the cause of my gluten-intolerance? [ Updated August 2025 ] Developing a gluten intolerance in the midst ...

Below is my chapter for  Public Knowledge , first published by Freerange Press in December 2019. You can purchase the book from the Freerang...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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