Pages tagged with: historical writing

The 1940 Centennial, planned for five years and publicly funded, was a deliberate act of national self-definition by the first Labour government.

Sir Walter Buller’s comment that ‘the flesh of the pukeko [is equal] to that of the best English game’ distasteful. But Buller, the author of A history of the birds of New Zealand

The New Zealand government has a long history of promoting and publishing historical works of all kinds, ranging from the 50-plus volumes of Second World War history to the cutting-edge digital projects of the early 21st century.