Vincent O'Malley

Save MCH history Manatū Taonga | The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) is proposing devastating cuts that will dismantle decades of world-class historical scholarship and shutter vital resources that serve hu…

Also worth reading: the joint statement of seven different NZ history and heritage organisations condemning the cuts. Link to it and other information in here:

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History Cuts Following my last post a week ago responding to news that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage had confirmed the axing of most historian roles at the...

My latest newsletter delves further into the MCH cuts.

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Kia Ora Earthlings!
It was awesome to hear a bit of @vomalley.bsky.social origin story in this in depth interview with Gerad Otto, over on Facebook.
#nzpol #history #aotearoa #nzhistory #education
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A retired teacher came by today to show me his ingenious idea to turn 'The Great War for New Zealand' into a boxed set.

Yes, that's right. I had a longer list in my original newsletter post but you've reminded me of a couple more pieces of evidence on top of that.

Prominent historian accuses Government of ‘war on history’ amid cuts at ministry The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is disestablishing four out of five senior historian roles as part of a wider restructure.

“when you see it on top of all of the changes to the history curriculum, slashing humanities research through the Marsden fund, the repeated attacks on the Waitangi Tribunal, there’s a whole range of things that together...amount to a war on history effectively.”
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The War on History News that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is to press ahead with sweeping cuts that will abolish the jobs of most of its historians represents yet...

Current government seems keen on continuing the erasure too. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

Reading Vincent O'Malley's The Invasion of the Waikato, and struck by how one of the successes of colonisation is the erasure from the Pākehā consciousness that this violence even occurred in the first place. Almost every site is one I have visited or driven through hundreds, thousands of times.

The War on History News that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is to press ahead with sweeping cuts that will abolish the jobs of most of its historians represents yet...

Wrote a little piece on the cuts at MCH and the wider war on history in NZ.

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NZ's Ministry for Culture and Heritage has been home to many exceptional historians and done invaluable work to promote understanding of the nation's past at home and around the world

Now that the barbarians are in charge, that will be no more

I'm not sure.

Taggers of the old Noah's Hotel in Chch obviously aren't afraid of heights.

Robyn Kahukiwa has a message.

Wonderful Fred Graham exhibiton at Christchurch Art Gallery.

The Invasion of Waikato and the 9 July 1863 Proclamation In July 1863 the Crown launched a premeditated war of conquest and invasion directed against Kīngitanga supporters in Waikato and their relatives living...

My latest newsletter looks at the proclamation issued on this date in 1863 that resulted in large numbers of Māori living in South Auckland being driven from their lands at gunpoint, days before the invasion of Waikato.

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‘Native Districts’ and the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 Asked to nominate the point at which relations between Māori and Pākehā had really begun to turn sour in the nineteenth century, many historians would likely...

My latest newsletter discusses the 1852 New Zealand Constitution Act, including section 71 providing for self-governing 'Native Districts' and a less well-known provision under the 1846 Constitution Act that included something very similar.
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Thanks to everyone who attended my online history workshop today. It was a really great occasion and I greatly appreciated the thoughtful contributions, engagment and feedback of all those involved. Ngā mihi nui.

Yes, appalling.

Still time to sign up for my Aotearoa NZ history workshop on Friday 27 June. Details in the link.

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More cuts proposed at Ministry for Culture and Heritage The axe is hovering over historians and staff who create digital content used by schools and the public.

On top of humanities and social sciences being cut from eligibility for the Marsden Fund, changes to 're-balance' the histories curriculum, attacks on the Waitangi Tribunal, etc, it seems clear the government would prefer we remain in ignorance about our history.

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NZ Listener on Papers Past Following agreement between the National Library and the publishers of the New Zealand Listener magazine late last year, a programme to digitise copies of...

My latest newsletter is online, discussing the arrival of the NZ Listener on Papers Past.

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Great to see the first 20 years of the NZ Listener (1939-59) now available on Papers past.

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I'll be one of the guest presenters for Fiona Kidman's Telling Stories: Life Writing and Memoir Workshops, starting in Wellington on 26 July. My session will cover the basics of historical research. Details in the link.

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Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award — New Zealand Portrait Gallery The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages young Maaori artists to create portraits of their tupuna (ancestors) in any medium. The Award is hosted and administered by ...

The entries for the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award are currently on show in Wellington. The artworks just get better each year. There's humour, sorrow, joy, defiance, love (so much love) & bucketloads of talent. Go see it if you can. Ake! Ake! Ake!
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Interesting exhibition at Wellington Museum marking 50 years of the Waitangi Tribunal.

Aotearoa New Zealand History Online Workshop I have recently been developing an Aotearoa New Zealand History workshop that will cover Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty but also explore Māori and Tangata...

SIGN UP! Aotearoa NZ History online workshop that "covers Te Tiriti o Waitangi but also explores Māori & Tangata Tiriti relations much more broadly from the late 18thC thru to today, showing how this history continues to resonate in the present" w @vomalley.bsky.social buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

Details on how to sign up for an Aotearoa NZ history workshop with me.

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The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is here! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with Dr Vincent O’Malley on Kingitanga (Māori King Movement) 👑

To listen to the episode, head to our Buzzsprout page (www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...) or to wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

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Proposal to change Russell's name to Kororāreka declined The Geographic Board say a proposal to change the name of the Northland town to its original Māori has been declined.

A pig-ignorant decision. It will always be Kororāreka to me.

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Huge fan of his work!