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New Zealand History — 92 episodes

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1

Writing Mr Ward’s map

2

Making ‘A Rather Queer Cuba Street’ with AI

3

Rewind: The Craft of Historical Storytelling in Podcasts

4

The financial colonisation of Aotearoa

5

The pain in Spain: Writing Spanish Civil War history in Aotearoa

6

Whakarongo ki ngā Taonga Tuku Iho: Listening to Taonga Held in French Museums

7

Small stories of colonisation: An uncomfortable settler family history

8

An Open Conversation on a Secret History

9

Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’: Jared Davidson

10

Adoption: From severance and secrecy to connection and openness

11

Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay

12

Te Motunui Epa – making history from the underground

13

‘An overview of New Zealand’s radical right tradition’: Matthew Cunningham

14

Archives in Place: Deep Histories in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

15

Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station: Redmer Yska and Cherie Jacobson in conversation

16

Musicians, Myths and Manifestos

17

Solidarity and the Right to Strike

18

Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture

19

New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History

20

A Biography of Lake Tūtira

21

Women Will Rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter

22

Mahuru Māori: Māni Dunlop and Jamie Tahana

23

Shifting perspectives about colonial conflict: The Wairau Affray and the Battle of Boulcott’s Farm

24

With the Boys Overseas: radio listening during World War II and New Zealand’s first broadcast war correspondents

25

Learning in and from primary schools: Teaching Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories at Years 1 to 6

26

‘There was no honour in it’: Two aspects of New Zealand’s military history

27

The Platform: the radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers

28

Crossing the lines: the story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in WW2

29

Reflecting on the value of social media as a history-research tool

30

Dissenting Voices – New Zealand and the South African War 1899–1902

31

Inside the Bubble

32

Kei roto i te miru: inside the bubble

33

‘Palmy Proud’? Audience and Approach in Writing the History of a Provincial City

34

Tamihana Te Rauparaha’s life of Te Rauparaha

35

Te Mana O Te Reo Māori

36

Unpacking the Suitcase

37

Māori women and the armed forces in WWII

38

Memorials, names and ethical remembering

39

‘Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance’

40

Wairoa Lockout: an oral history

41

Pūkana: moments in Māori performance

42

This Mortal Boy

43

100 years of the Tararua Tramping Club

44

The Hidden Women of the Public Stage

45

My Body, My Business

46

Ocean: tales of voyaging and encounter that defined New Zealand

47

The Saving of Old St Paul’s

48

The tragedy of the SS Talune and the 1918 influenza pandemic

49

Polly Plum and the first wave of feminism

50

‘Researching kindergarten: the endeavours of women for the play of children’

51

‘The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, redux’

52

Jazzy Nerves, Aching Feet, and Foxtrots: New Zealand’s Jazz Age

53

How does a city make a writer?

54

Māori Women, Politics and Petitions in the 19th Century

55

The Great War for New Zealand

56

Counting redcoats: Who were the imperial soldiers serving in New Zealand in the 1860s?

57

The Broken Decade: 1928 - 39 by Malcom McKinnon

58

Past Caring? Gender, Work and Emotion - A talk by Professor Barbara Brookes

59

Hearth and Home: Reconstructing the Rural Kitchen, c1840–1940’

60

The Māori War Effort at Home and Abroad 1917

61

New Zealand’s Rivers: can we learn from history?

62

Reflections on the Big Smoke

63

KŪPAPA - the bitter legacy of Māori alliances with the Crown

64

Richard Seddon: King of God’s Own

65

Dr Steven Loveridge: New Zealand Society at War

66

Dr Grant Morris: ’Legal Villain’

67

Andrew Francis: Enemy aliens and the New Zealand experience

68

Imelda Bargas and Tim Shoebridge: New Zealand’s First World War Heritage

69

Margaret Sparrow: Rough on Women Abortion in 19th Century New Zealand

70

’I am the island of Niue, a small child that stands up to help the Kingdom of King George - Niue Island involvement in World War I’

71

Aroha Harris: New Perspectives on Māori History

72

Coal- the Rise and Fall of King Coal in New Zealand

73

Kate Hunter and Kirstie Ross: Holding On To Home

74

New Zealand English: is there more here than meets the eye and ear?

75

Judgments of all Kinds: Economic Policymaking in New Zealand 1945-84

76

'Captain Kindheart’s Crusade'

77

A Tasman tale?: New Zealand's Depression and Australia, 1930-39

78

The History of Gangs in New Zealand

79

The White Ships: New Zealand's First World War Hospital Ships

80

The Great Strike of 1913: ‘Industrial War’ in ‘the Workers’ Paradise’

81

Tramping in New Zealand, a History

82

The Red Cross Lens on New Zealand Social History

83

Writing fiction as a non-fiction writer

84

Friendly Fire: What happens when allies quarrel

85

The Present and the Future

86

The Eighties – A Retrospective View

87

The “Old” Public Service

88

Patronage and Scientific Rationalism: The Public Service Act 1912

89

Charles Mackay: The fall and rise of New Zealand's first 'homosexual'

90

Life on the Battlefields 94 years later

91

Scandal sheet confidential: voyages around NZ Truth (1977-2008)

92

The search for Anne Perry