...In 1961 Māori artist Ralph Hotere moved to London to study at the Central School of Art, subsequently settling in Vence, France, before he returned to New Zealand in 1964. He became part of a cultural moment that has been called ‘New Commonwealth Internationalism’, in which artists from British ex...

...This chapter describes how the competing ideas of diaspora might inform the understanding of Irish and Scottish overseas settlement within the Empire and elsewhere. It also investigates recent representations of Irish and Scottish settlement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The changing...

... the trajectories of national suffrage historiography in Australia and New Zealand and details the existence of deep connections between suffragists across Britain’s Australasian colonies as well as these activists’ efforts to build meaningful connections with like-minded women across the world. It concludes...

...This chapter considers the politics and practice of Australian and New Zealand suffragists’ letter writing. Tracing Australasian women’s intercolonial and international circuits of discussion, it finds them smaller, more functional, and less complete than previously described. Examining...

...The conclusion assesses the Australasian suffragists’ legacy from the perspective of their interwar antecedents. Beginning with the apologies issued by the Australian novelist Miles Franklin and the New Zealand journalist Jessie Mackay, it explores the sense of shame that 1920s feminists felt...

...This chapter concludes a study on the circumstances under which British settler colonists accorded or denied political rights to Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the 1830s to 1910. The developments discussed in the chapter show that while White settlers...

... French Wars ‘Condition of England’ debates Luddites Australia Canada genius Italy Yorkshire capitalism emigration English Woman’s Journal Nussey Ellen Roe Head School Rye Maria S Victoria Magazine Wellington New Zealand letters Charlotte Brontë’s Stevens Joan Wooler Margaret Brontë...

...In Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania the limited size of the recently established theatrical industry created particular challenges and pressures for some of the intrepid nineteenth-century British actresses seeking to find work on its stages. This chapter reveals the practical reality of long...

...Distant Sisters offers a new history of the connections that women in Australia and New Zealand made with one another, and suffragists across the world, in their pioneer pursuit of the vote and subsequent struggle to sell its merits overseas. Although the Australasian suffrage...

..., there has been no systematic attempt to identify the reasons behind the survival of constitutional monarchy in the former dominions. Comparing the recent experience of New Zealand, Canada and Australia (1990–2014) this chapter explains the reasons behind constitutional monarchy’s extraordinary longevity...

... of kingship and native monarchy in many parts of the empire. Especially as a female monarch, Queen Victoria was seen as offering the cloak of protection, exemplified here by case-studies drawn from New Zealand and India. When rival European empires consolidated their realms after 1860 -- notably Italy...

...In 1858 the first Maori King was installed. Although Europeans commonly depicted the Kingitanga (the Maori King movement) as a challenge to British sovereignty over New Zealand, supporters saw nothing incompatible between allegiance to their own indigenous monarch and ongoing adherence...

... Dennis Boehmke F J Capital Punishment Gay Marriages Immigration Abortion Taxation Campaign Spending Kobach Kris Political Parties Elections and Referendum Act 2000 Schmidt David Smith Daniel Tolbert Caroline Turnout Power Commission Royal Commission on the Electoral System New Zealand...

...This chapter focuses on the uptake of liberal universalism by indigenous thinkers in the settler societies of Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It focuses on five thinkers—Peter Jones (Canada), Charles Eastman and Zitkala-Sa (U.S.), Apirana Ngata (New Zealand) and William...

... isolation medical journals mental poverty Royal Society of New Zealand Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute traveller colonisers European empire ‘imperial turn’ military medical personnel prostitution sexuality transnational Anglo settler ‘revolution’ assemblages Belich...

... of Indigenous museology are emerging and reshaping the conventions of curatorial practice? In addressing this question, the current chapter draws on research by the authors, including interviews with Māori curators, museum professionals, academics, and community leaders throughout Aotearoa New Zealand...

...This chapter considers social history in a post-colonial contest. It specifically examines how the history of the majority culture in a post-settler society has and might be curated. Using Aotearoa New Zealand as its case study, it considers the figure of the Pakeha (non-indigenous) curator...

... New Zealand, Queensland and Western Australia, tried to keep Maori and Indigenous people in a marginalized situation. In the Electoral Bill, which was passed in 1879, politicians were enfranchised. White property-holders could have plural votes in any number of electorates, but Maori landowners were...

...This chapter looks at two countries that offer deviant cases-one where the legislation was passed through a consensual process and one where it was ‘imposed’ upon a new government by its predecessor. • The Consensus Model in New Zealand: agreement between senior politicians and officials led...

...This chapter focuses on New Zealand’s Pacific colonies of the Cook Islands and Sāmoa, drawing on material culture studies and actor network theory to trace the relations between scientific activities and colonial governmentality. The focus here is on the collaboration and critical engagement...