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...
by Danny Keenan | Oct 26, 2021 | Published Works
The section provides details of chapters Danny has published in books edited by various scholars and writers. In most cases, you can read the chapter by clicking on the book cover, with reference details also provided. Chapters not yet available will be uploaded in...
by Danny Keenan | Sep 20, 2021 | Histories of Māori
Land, Culture and History Interwoven ‘Māori history’ can be defined in many different ways – it depends on which historian you are talking to, and whether that historian is Māori or not. In this book, Huia Histories of Māori. Ngā Tāhuhu Kōrero, Danny...
by Danny Keenan | Aug 23, 2021 | Wars Library
Octavius Hadfield, The Second Year of One of England’s Little Wars, London, 1861 (the North Taranaki War 1860-61). F.E. Maning, Old New Zealand. A Tale of the Good Old Times by a Pakeha Maori, Auckland, 1863. John Eldon Gorst, The Maori King, new edition edited...
