Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Without the State who would accidentally commit suicide by blowing up privately-funded monuments? This month in history on the 28 July, 1906, two Government employees did just that in Nelson. From 1880, Nelson had a very nice drinking fountain that also lit the corner
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Britain sends some 11,000 soldiers to New Zealand from 1840-1872. Although casualties are small (total British-Maori killed – 3,000), there are many engagements off
One half of my family originates from the Mediterranean island state of Malta. Strategically located between Africa and Southern Europe, Malta is an island that has, like its last colonial ruler, Britain, been invaded and colonised many times in its history. That history of colonisation – from the Phoenicians and Romans
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in
Rejected as unsuitable for publication by the University of Otago Press, but really liked by The BFD. Available on Amazon as an e-book or in paperback directly from the author in Canada. $25NZ (includes postage) Contact: corfieldwg@gmail.com
Annette Bulovic peelingbackhistory.co.nz It can be funny how a stretch of land seems destined to know only one purpose. I have come across this from time to time and it is amazing how many different sets of feet can walk that land and yet they all entwine into
Rowan Light maxim.org.nz The notion that “history is written by the winner” might seem clichéd but, as the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crack-down on history education in Hong Kong shows, it’s one that should give us cause to reflect on how precious (and precarious) the teaching
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Land Ownership In New Zealand The problems in New Zealand after 1840 between the British and the Maori, were mainly due to two peoples having
Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz The History of New Zealand through a Libertarian Anarchist lens. On 24 October, 1992, The Mt Cavendish Gondola was open for business and is still running today under the name Christchurch Gondola. You can be seated in a gondola basket on a return trip
It’s been conveniently forgotten now, but 60s hippy rock star Neil Young caused quite a kerfuffle in the 80s, when he backed not only Ronald Reagan, but nuclear weapons. Young claimed that nuclear weapons were a necessary deterrent against WWIII. It seems crazy and counter-intuitive, but it’s true:
History is full of individuals who, though they might not have been the movers and shakers, stood present at some of its greatest events. For those born around the turn of the last century, they lived through such epochal events as the two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Cold
Annette Bulovic peelingbackhistory.co.nz I will always be grateful to my ex-workmates of Bryco-ProPrint (now out of business) who introduced me to the old ‘Occi’ around 1999/2000. I was invited along to watch the All Blacks on the big screen and have a sampling of the backpacker’s
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. Hobson arrives in Russell on 29 January 1840, and then he too, like Busby, proceeds to do some quite incredible things, and in an incredibly
Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz The Alexander Turnbull Library still forms the nucleus of New Zealand’s National Archives. It was yesterday in history, 13 July 1920, that The State officially nationalised Turnbull’s extensive collection. However, it was on June 28th, 1920, that the Government (William Massey’s
Annette Bulovic peelingbackhistory.co.nz When the Canterbury Association Management Committee were pulling together all the details of the upcoming immigration of roughly 700 settlers to Christchurch and Canterbury in 1850, every little detail had to be thought of and ironed out. This included diet while on board. It was
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