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Obituary – Raymond Frank Grover (1931-2019)
Obituary Raymond Frank Grover (1931-2019) Brad Patterson Born in Matamata in 1931, the eldest son of a transient school-teaching family, Ray Grover’s early years were in small rural settlements at the Bay of Islands and on the Wanganui River. After…
Tagged with: Brad Patterson, Issue 126, Ray Grover, Raymond Frank Grover, Winter 2019
Posted in Obituaries
Posted in Obituaries
Posthumous vindication, David V Williams
After the Treaty: The Settler State, Race Relations and Power in Colonial New Zealand Brad Patterson, Richard S Hill and Kathryn Patterson (eds) Steele Roberts, $40.00, ISBN 9780947493158 There was a time in New Zealand when university historians took umbrage…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Brad Patterson, David V Williams, Issue 121, Kathryn Patterson, Richard S Hill, Steele Roberts
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Scots collective and singular, Kirstine Moffat
Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking and Jim McAloon Otago University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9780773541900 I have always enjoyed the inventiveness of collective nouns, favourites being an exaltation of larks and a worship of…
Tagged with: Brad Patterson, Issue 106, Jim McAloon, Kirstine Moffat, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Sporting chances, Russell Marshall
Sport, Society and Culture ed Brad Patterson Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, $24.95, ISBN 0 473 06403 0 It is extraordinary, to say the least, that sport and academe in New Zealand have squared off against each…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Brad Patterson, Issue 45, Russell Marshall, Stout Research Centre
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport