The inequality, stigma and eugenic thinking that led to their acquisition is often obscured or erased.
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Our new analysis of the skeletal remains and records of babies in a NZ museum collection shows they were largely born to unmarried mothers or lower-class families.
Beyond the familiar ideas of mateship and sacrifice, Anzac Day offers an opportunity to teach young people a more complicated but meaningful version of history.
A more precise timeline now shows Polynesian ancestors of Māori first settled in the North Island before expanding south and then retreating again when the climate changed.
Anzac soldiers wrote poetry about body lice, shared treatment tips and experimented with new ways of bathing.
During the European Middle Ages, parts of the world experienced warming similar to that between 1960 to 1990. But the rising temperatures we’re observing now are global and exceed the past record.
We now know how the father of New Zealand’s suffrage pioneer died, and it raises fascinating questions about what drove her morally and politically.
New Zealand’s 2020 budget must not only provide economic hope, it must balance the very different ideologies and aspirations of two earlier historic budgets.
New Zealand will pardon religious Māori leader Rua Kēnana, who was arrested more than a century ago for “moral resistance”, but the pardon fails to acknowledge the miscarriage of justice.
Almost 140 years after armed government troops crushed peaceful protests at Parihaka, New Zealand is beginning to make amends with the signing of a reconciliation law and a compensation agreement.
Teaching history is as much about facts and people as it is about contested narratives and disputed interpretations, which is why it’s time to make New Zealand history a compulsory subject at school.
The Treaty of Waitangi provides New Zealand with a convention for working through issues with a commitment to cultural diversity.
2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s arrival in New Zealand and the beginning of European contact with Māori.
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Professor of History, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of History, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Otago
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Professor of Psychology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Bioarchaeology, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University
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Associate Professor and Director, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Te Aka Mātuatua - School of Science, University of Waikato
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Honorary Postdoctoral Associate, Macquarie University
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Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD Candidate, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Biogeography, Node & Stream Leader for ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, University of Technology Sydney; Australian Museum
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Assistant Research Fellow, University of Otago
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University