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“New Zealand’s leading public historian”, Tom Brooking
Making History: A New Zealand Story Jock Phillips Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869408992 Jock Phillips has written an engaging memoir of his challenge to his father’s Anglophile and Eurocentric view of history, and transition from an academic to a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Pres, Issue 128, Jock Phillips, Summer 2019, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The long and the short of it, Jock Phillips
A Peculiar Gentleman: George Rusden – A Life John O’Leary Australian Scholarly, $50.00, ISBN 9781925333404 The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765-1838 Andrew Sharp Auckland University Press,…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Australian Scholarly, George Rusden, Issue 118, Jock Phillips, John O’Leary, Samuel Marsden, Winter 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Memory and amnesia, Giovanni Tiso
To the Memory: New Zealand’s War Memorials Jock Phillips Potton and Burton, $60.00, ISBN 9780947503024 Think of it as a road guide to New Zealand of sorts, one that maps your route both spatially and chronologically: for almost every town…
Tagged with: Giovanni Tiso, Issue 116, Jock Phillips, Potton and Burton, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Tales from the colonial crypt, Jock Phillips
Unearthly Landscapes: New Zealand’s Early Cemeteries, Churchyards and Urupā Stephen Deed Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781927322185 A confession: I am a cemetery buff. On arriving at any New Zealand settlement, it is not long before I find the local…
Tagged with: Issue 114, Jock Phillips, Otago University Press, Stephen Deed, Winter 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Voices from the past, Jock Phillips
Remembering Gallipoli: Interviews with New Zealand Gallipoli Veterans Christopher Pugsley and Charles Ferrall (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9780864739919 Amid the flood of printed words that have marked the centenary of New Zealand’s Gallipoli experience, Remembering Gallipoli comes with,…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 112, Jock Phillips, Summer 2015, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Captions and context, David Littlewood
The Anzacs: An Inside View of New Zealanders at Gallipoli Auckland War Memorial Museum Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 9780143572336 Brothers in Arms: Gordon and Robin Harper in the Great War Jock Phillips with Philip Harper and Susan Harper NZHistoryJock, $40.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland War Memorial Museum, Gordon Harper, Issue 111, Jock Phillips, NZHistoryJock, Penguin, Philip Harper, Robin Harper, Spring 2015, Susan Harper
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
The lonely soldier, Peter Ireland
ANZAC Laurence Aberhart (photographs) and Jock Phillips (essay) Victoria University Press with Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $60.00, ISBN 9780864739339 What to make of all the hoopla surrounding the centenary of WWI? Is it just one thing we’re commemorating – say,…
Tagged with: Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Issue 106, Jock Phillips, Laurence Aberhart, Peter Ireland, Victoria University Press, Winter 2014
Posted in Non-fiction
Posted in Non-fiction
Reconsidering a juvenile critique, Jock Phillips
“I think I am becoming a New Zealander”: Letters of J C Beaglehole Tim Beaglehole (ed) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739025 For someone such as myself, this is an engrossing book. I had met J C Beaglehole (his preferred…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, J C Beaglehole, Jock Phillips, Tim Beaglehole, Victoria University Press
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Less English than the English, Tony Simpson
Settlers: New Zealand Immigrants From England, Ireland and Scotland 1800 to 1945 Jock Phillips and Terry Hearn Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781869404017 Over the next few years, our official historians have announced, they will concentrate attention on our immigrant…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 84, Jock Phillips, Summer 2008, Terry Hearn, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Page vs screen, Jock Phillips
Posted in Comment