Defining conflicts? The New Zealand Wars
This is a free Friends of the Turnbull Library Public Programme event.
Acclaimed historian Vincent O’Malley will present an overview of a turbulent period in our history – a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation’s history.
Thursday 22 November 2018; 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Programme Rooms, Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon.
The New Zealand Wars Dr Vincent O’Malley will present an overview of this turbulent period in our history – a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation’s history. He looks at the origins, causes and consequences of these conflicts and discusses how the wars have been remembered historically. Vincent is a well-known and acclaimed Wellington historian, whose fine book, The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 (Bridget Williams Books, was published by Bridget Williams Books in 2016. He has received a FoTL research grant to help him research his latest book project, a history of the New Zealand Wars aimed at the secondary school market.
Image: Dr Vincent O’Malley. (Courtesy of Bridget Williams Books, 2016)
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