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Watching the watchers, Ian F Grant

Posted on August 26, 2019 by NZ Books

Dead Letters: Censorship And Subversion In New Zealand 1914–1920 Jared Davidson Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531526 Dead Letters contains intriguing detail about a random cast of now-forgotten people who were considered likely subversives in New Zealand during WWI. For…

Tagged with: Ian F Grant, Issue 127, Jared Davidson, Otago University Press, Spring 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War

Pressing on, James Hollings

Posted on May 26, 2019 by NZ Books

Lasting Impressions: The Story of New Zealand’s Newspapers, 1840–1920 Ian F Grant Fraser Books, in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library, $69.50, ISBN 9780994136046 At a time when journalism is in crisis, with collapsing revenues and governments and elites indifferent…

Tagged with: Alexander Turnbull Library, Dr James Hollings, Fraser Books, Ian F Grant, Issue 126, Winter 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review

A wicked look Gerry Evans

Posted on September 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Between the Lines: A Cartoon Century of New Zealand Political History, 1906-2005 Ian F Grant New Zealand Cartoon Archive, $39.00, ISBN 0958232040 Jews, Maori, Chinese, unionists, socialists, Red-feds, imbibers, wowsers, women, wharfies and, most frequently of all, politicians, have all…

Tagged with: Gerry Evans, Ian F Grant, Issue 75, New Zealand Cartoon Archive, Spring 2006
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology

A bob each way, Jon Gadsby

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Other Side Of The Ditch: A cartoon century in the New Zealand-Australia relationship Ian F Grant Tandem Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958232008 Thoroughbreds, Trainers, Toffs and Tic Tac Men: A Cartoon History of Horse Racing in New Zealand David Grant…

Tagged with: David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Ian F Grant, Issue 56, Jon Gadsby, Summer 2001, Tandem Press
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology