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Gold-panning history, Paul Moon

Posted on December 7, 2016 by NZ Books

Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00 ISBN 9781877578540 Since 1887, when Vincent Pyke’s History of the Early Gold Discoveries in Otago was…

Tagged with: Issue 116, Lloyd Carpenter, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, Paul Moon, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Not just a matter of mutton, Vincent O’Malley

Posted on June 1, 2013 by NZ Books

New Zealand’s London: A Colony and its Metropolis Felicity Barnes Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869405854 Far From “Home”: The English in New Zealand Lyndon Fraser and Angela McCarthy (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578328 On the day that…

Tagged with: Angela McCarthy, Auckland University Press, Felicity Barnes, Issue 102, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, Vincent O’Malley, Winter 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Digging deep, Ann Beaglehole

Posted on June 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand’s West Coast Irish Lyndon Fraser Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 9781877372445 Mine Alone: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire R D Mercer Butterfly Creek Press, $39.95, ISBN 9780473120115 Stories…

Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Butterfly Creek Press, Issue 81, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, R D Mercer, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Silenced voices, Malcolm Campbell

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History ed Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276324 It is a truism that migration history steps into the limelight when immigration is at its most contentious…

Tagged with: Issue 58, Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Malcolm Campbell, Winter 2002
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review