To the Ends of the Earth Neil Robinson HarperCollins $39.95 ISBN 1 86950 265 5 Going Abroad John MacGibbon Ngaio Press $39.95 ISBN 0 473 04752 7 Chips off the Auld Rock Susan Butterworth (with Graham Butterworth) Shetland Society of…
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Coming from elsewhere, Paul Goldsmith
The Immigrants Tony Simpson Godwit, $34.95, ISBN 0 908877 94 3 Most, if not all, people born in New Zealand have at least one ancestor who arrived in this country during the last two centuries. There could scarcely be a…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Godwit, Issue 29, Paul Goldsmith, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
A new frame of reference, Tony Simpson
Frontier New Zealand: The Search for Eldorado 1800-1920 Duncan Mackay, Harper Collins, $34.95 The besetting sin of historical writing is hindsightism. That is to say, the creation of the illusion that because we have arrived at today’s destination then at…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Duncan Mackay, Harper Collins, Issue 8, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Firmly anchored in the past, Tony Simpson
The Oxford History of New Zealand G W Rice (ed), (2nd Edition), Oxford University Press, $59.95 When, in 1973, Professor J G A Pocock delivered his J C Beaglehole Memorial Lecture on British History to the New Zealand Historical Association (subsequently…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1993, G W Rice, Issue 8, Oxford University Press, Tony Simpson
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Engaging antics while dusting the general store, Harry Orsman
Shame and Disgrace: A History of Lost Scandals in New Zealand Tony Simpson, Penguin Books, Auckland, 1992, $29.95 Open 7 Days: a celebration of the New Zealand general store Don Donovan, Random Century, Auckland, 1992, $34.95 Tony Simpson writes interesting social…
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Tagged with: Don Donovan, Harry Orsman, Penguin Books, Random Century, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Forging a political language, Tony Simpson
In his 1946 essay ‘Politics and the English Language’ George Orwell remarks that ‘one ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting…
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