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Friday, July 26, 2024

Eras review of Blood and Dirt

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This review of Blood and Dirt comes from Eras Journal  25:1 and was written by Daisy Bailey . Image by Archi Banal for The Spinoff. Blood ...
Friday, July 5, 2024

The 2024 Public Environmental History Prize

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At the AANZEHN ’s annual gathering at the Australian Historical Association Conference on 3 July, the Network’s Steering Committee announced...
Friday, June 7, 2024

History Australia review of Blood and Dirt

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This review of Blood and Dirt comes from History Australia 21:2 (2024) and was written by David Andrew Roberts. Image by Tina Tiller for ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Convictism and the Neolithic: A Response to Erik Olssen

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Prisoners under armed guard remove Bell Hill in Dunedin, c1875. Ref: P2014-014/3-003,  Hocken Library. If one’s book is “ like a friend that...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Unfreedom Forest: A History of New Zealand’s Prison Plantations

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In February 2024 I gave a Friends of the Turnbull Library lecture on the history of New Zealand’s prison plantations, reproduced below. The ...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

'Blood and Dirt' recognised by the International Labor History Association

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Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand has received an International Labor History Association Honorable Mention Award...
Friday, December 8, 2023

'Blood and Dirt' one of the best books of 2023!

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Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand (BWB) has been out for four months now, and the positive feedback has been amaz...
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....