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Changing times, David Grant
The New Zealand Labour Party 1916–2016 Peter Franks and Jim McAloon Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781776560745 Researching a history of conservative political parties in New Zealand would be relatively straight-forward. The Reform/National Parties have, from their early beginnings to…
Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 118, Jim McAloon, Peter Franks, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Memory, mateship and mortality, David Grant
Going South: A Road Trip Through Life Colin Hogg HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775540816 The premise of this book is simple. Well-known journalist and influential rock music critic, Colin Hogg, was in deep discussion last year with mates at a birthday…
Tagged with: Colin Hogg, David Grant, HarperCollins, Issue 115, Spring 2016
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Moral force, John Campbell
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk David Grant Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775535799 I was 10 when Norman Kirk died. It was the first death I had ever registered. When the news came through, my parents…
Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 106, John Campbell, Norman Kirk, Random House, Winter 2014
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Dressing Wellington’s radicals, David Grant
Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism and Early New Zealand Anarchism Jared Davidson AK Press, $15.00, ISBN 9781849351324 Philip Josephs was a Latvian-born Jewish tailor who escaped religious persecution in his home country. He emigrated firstly to Glasgow – the industrial…
Tagged with: AK Press, David Grant, Issue 106, Jared Davidson, Philip Josephs, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Room at the top, David Grant
White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the Rise of White-collar Unions Mark Derby Craig Potton, $40.00, ISBN 9781877517174 Dan Long was an esteemed public servant and political and union activist from the late 1950s until his premature death in 1976, aged…
Tagged with: Craig Potton, Dan Long, David Grant, Issue 104, Mark Derby, Summer 2013
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Cheerful, funny and popular, Trevor Richards
Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas David Grant Random House, $45.00, ISBN 9781869793890 In Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas we have as the central character a trade unionist…
Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 92, Ken Douglas, Random House, Summer 2010, Trevor Richards
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Might and rights, Elspeth Sandys
Field Punishment No 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition David Grant, paintings by Bob Kerr Steele Roberts, $34.99, ISBN 9781877448461 In his introduction to Field Punishment No 1, David Grant expresses his satisfaction that New Zealand…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Bob Kerr, David Grant, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 89, Steele Roberts
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Something out of Dante’s Inferno, David Grant
Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War Mark Derby (ed) Canterbury University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877257711 For the great bulk of New Zealanders between 1936 and 1939 the Spanish Civil War was like any other civil war; it…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, David Grant, Issue 88, Mark Derby, Summer 2009
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Obituary — Richard King
Richard King (1948-2008) The New Zealand book world lost one of its most able and respected publishers with the sudden and premature death earlier this year of Richard King, managing editor of Canterbury University Press. Over the past decade CUP…
Telling tales out of school, Harvey Molloy
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective David Grant Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877338214 Welcome to the Campus of Struggle: Dispatches from the International Student Academic Front 1999-2004 David Cohen Dunmore…
Tagged with: David Cohen, David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Harvey Molloy, Issue 68, June 2005, Steele Roberts
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review