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Sunday, August 20, 2023

Prison labour, history-making and power: Notes on Trouillot’s 'Silencing the Past'

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History was published by Haitian writer and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot in 1995....
Thursday, August 10, 2023

From Crew to the Chain Gang: Seamen, Prison Labour and ‘Improvement’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand

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In this rare photograph taken in the late 1860s or early 1870s, the Lyttelton hard-labour gang are working at Officers Point. Lyttelton Muse...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Announcing 'Blood and Dirt'!

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Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men wi...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Interview with Tia Ebert for 'Some Archives'

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Recently I was lucky enough to be interviewed for Some Archives , an artist book designed, printed and edited by Tia Ebert. Some Archives f...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Review: The History of a Riot

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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...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

A list of New Zealand gluten-free, gluten-reduced and low gluten craft beers

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One of my own home-brews - perhaps the cause of my gluten-intolerance? [ Updated August 2025 ] Developing a gluten intolerance in the midst ...
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Monday, January 11, 2021

Archive Stories, Archive Realities

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