by Danny Keenan | May 23, 2022 | Changing Landscapes
It’s interesting to compare historic sites as they once existed, to see how they appear today. This is because it enables us to observe how much the sites have actually changed, over time – or, how much they remain the same. This page illustrates some of...
by Danny Keenan | May 11, 2022 | Histories of Māori
Many historians have written about the New Zealand Wars; and most have done a fine job of their research and publications. The New Zealand Wars literature, as a result, is quite extensive. You can read about some of these publications, and how they have contributed to...
by Danny Keenan | May 1, 2022 | Feature Article
The Pantheons Sculptures project is sponsored by the University of York and focuses on St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Fifty historians. authors, poets and writers from around the world were invited to write/talk about one of the 50 statues at St Paul’s...
by Danny Keenan | Mar 12, 2022 | Remembering the Dead
Former Prime Minister John Key recently stated that New Zealand was ‘settled peacefully’. Unfortunately, this is not true. We do spend a lot of time remembering our ‘boys who died overseas’ after 1915, but we forget the dead of the earlier Land...
by Danny Keenan | Oct 27, 2021 | Campaigns
16 May 1846 In 1846, Governor George Grey ordered the British Army to Wellington to act as deterrent in the wake of ongoing land disputes between new settlers and Ngāti Toa. 16 May 1846 a Ngāti Toa war party attacked Boulcott’s Farm in Lower Hutt, where a...
