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Showing posts with label IWW. Show all posts
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, 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...
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 ...
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...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Slow down, comrades! There’s more than one way to strike

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Below is my article reproduced from  Overland Literary Journal , September 2018 In May 1925, Australian seaman and returned serviceman...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Precarious Pasts and Postwork Futures

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This article was first published in the November 2017 edition of the LHP Bulletin , which had precarious work as its theme. Other articl...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Wobblies of the World: New Zealand Launch!

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Join New Zealand contributors, Mark Derby and Peter Clayworth, plus special guests, for a presentation of this new history of the global...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Dissent during the First World War Conference, 31 Aug - 2 Sep 2017

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Thomas Moynihan, conscientious objector, Wanganui Detention Barracks 1918. Archives New Zealand Hosted by the Stout Research Centre f...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Domestic Postal Censorship in WWI: RNZ Nights interview

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I was lucky enough to have my current research featured on RNZ Nights . From the description: Not many people know that domestic posta...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Dissent during the First World War: by the numbers

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In this guest post for the Te Papa blog , I ask how historians and others have measured and defined dissent, sedition and conscientious obj...