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History Making a Difference History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa Edited by Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Marguerite Hill, Sarah Murray and Greg Ryan History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa Edited by Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Marguerite Hill, Sarah Murray and Greg Ryan This book was first published 2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2017 by Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Marguerite Hill, Sarah Murray, Greg Ryan and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5199-X ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5199-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures........................................................................................... viii Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... x Introduction ................................................................................................ xi History Making a Difference Katie Pickles List of Abbreviations ................................................................................. xv Section I: Challenging Power and Privilege Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2 Contending with the Weight of History: Power, Privilege and the Predilection for Presumption Ani Mikaere Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 18 Fulfilling Kemp’s Deed: Tuahiwi and Land Title Reform Te Maire Tau and Martin Fisher Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 39 Making Identities: Sāmoa “On Show” at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939–40 Safua Akeli Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 58 Niue: Bringing the History Home Margaret Pointer Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 73 Learning from History: An Exclusive Brethren Story Peter Lineham vi Table of Contents Section II: The Co-production of Historical Knowledge Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 94 Let’s Change History! Community Histories and the Co-production of Historical Knowledge Paul Ward and Elizabeth Pente Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 113 Healthy Communities: History in Public Mark Smith, Catharine Coleborne and John Armstrong Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 131 Transforming Family Narrative: The Kalimpong Community in New Zealand Jane McCabe Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 148 The Heritage Smorgasbord: Constructing Identity at the Charlotte Museum Trust Nadia Gush Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 165 “But what are you going to do with it?”: From PhD to Public History Rosemary Baird Section III: Public and Material Histories Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 182 Documenting National News: Histories, Images and Memories Kate Darian-Smith Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 203 A Straw in the Wind: Making History with a Bonnet Fiona McKergow Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 224 “More than books can tell”: Museums, Artefacts and the History of the Great War Kirstie Ross History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa vii Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 249 The Intangible Natural Heritage of Ranunculus paucifolius, the Castle Hill Buttercup Joanna Cobley Glossary ................................................................................................... 264 Contributors ............................................................................................. 266 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 3-1: Sāmoan group at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. Pictured are Fuala’au (far left), Leleaga Seumanutafa, Sao Taito, Police Sergeant Fitisemanu Talavou and John Churchward, 1939. Figure 3-2: A view of the Sāmoan fale at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939. Figure 4-1: Indigenous people from Niue or Friendly Islands. Figure 4-2: Opaahi, the site of Cook’s third landing on Savage Island in 1774. Figure 4-3: New Zealand Parliamentary tour to Pacific 1903. Figure 4-4: Peniamina and other native mission workers. Figure 6-1: Sound System Culture at Greenhead Park, Huddersfield. Figure 6-2: Sound System Culture at Manchester Carnival. Figure 6-3: Sound System Culture at the University of Huddersfield. Figure 6-4: Hardeep Sahota, Bhangra Renaissance, at the Imagine conference, Brighton, 2013. Figure 7-1: The 60-metre timeline on level 2 of the John Meade Centre of the Waikato Hospital. Figure 8-1: Map of northeast India showing tea districts and Kalimpong. Figure 8-2: Screenshot of the Kalimpong Kids research website. Figure 8-3: Sylvia Slater with Anne Beckett in Wellington, 2011. Figure 8-4: The “school office” where the Home’s files are kept, November 2012. Figure 8-5: Descendants at the Kalimpong Reunion, Dunedin, 2014. Figure 9-1: Vulva poppy prototype as used in publicity material for Invulved. Figure 9-2: Invulved as it was shown at the Charlotte Museum Trust. Figure 10-1: Remembering Christchurch book cover. Figure 10-2: Film Show at Kawarau Woolshed, Bannockburn, 2015. Figure 10-3: Women’s Voices Research committee receiving the Mary Fran Myers Award, awarded by the Gender and Disaster Network, 25 August 2014. Figure 11-1: Model Jean Shrimpton in her mini dress at Flemington racecourse on 1965 Derby Day in Melbourne, Victoria. Figure 11-2: St. Kilda player Nicky Winmar points to his skin in response to a racist taunt from the crowd. April 16, 1993. History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa ix Figure 11-3: Mrs. Anna Buzueleac, 76, walks down the gangplank towards her son, 1965. Figure 12-1: Eliza Bennett’s wedding bonnet. Figure 12-2: Detail of the inside of Eliza Bennett’s wedding bonnet. Figure 12-3: George and Eliza Denton, c. 1902. Figure 12-4: Page of family scrapbook with fragment of Eliza Bennett’s wedding dress. Figure 12-5: View of sitting room at Fern Hill. Figure 13-1: A permanent building for a New Zealand war museum did not progress beyond this undated sketch plan. Figure13-2: A gun captured by New Zealand soldiers at Messines, Belgium, being painted with the name of the regiment that captured it on 7 June 1917. Figure 13-3: Unidentified staff from the New Zealand War Records Section photography department, 1919. Figure 13-4: A view of the Dominion Museum’s main hall crowded with natural history and ethnological displays, shortly before the war. Figure 13-5: Dorothy Broad made these two hat pins from a shoulder pip and a tunic button removed from her dead fiancé’s repatriated uniform. Figure 14-1: Ranunculus paucifolius, a small yellow-flowered scree buttercup with ashen-purple coloured leaves. Figure 14-2: Enys’ Colonial Museum specimen entitled “Scree buttercup, Ranunculus crithmifolius”. Figure 14-3: Myosotis colensoi, the Castle Hill forget-met-not aka “mouse ears”, one of the 14 endangered plant species at the Lance McCaskill Nature Reserve. Figure 14-4: Canterbury’s high country limestone tors and fence, first erected in the 1948. Figure 14-5: Humans engaging with little frog. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to the sponsors of the New Zealand Historical Association’s biennial conference held at the University of Canterbury in December 2015, where the chapters in this volume originated. Keynote addresses by Anne Salmond (the Beaglehole Lecture), Ani Mikaere (the Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikāheke Memorial Lecture), Paul Ward and Kate Darian-Smith contributed to the conference theme ‘history making a difference’, and a chapter from three of these keynote addresses leads each section of this volume. The Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and the College of Arts at the University of Canterbury are thanked for their sponsorship, as are Te Pouhere Kōrero, the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Canterbury Historical Foundation and the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. We would like to thank Victoria Carruthers and the team at Cambridge Scholars Publishing for commissioning this volume and for carefully guiding it through to publication. Jane Parkin deftly copyedited the manuscript. An earlier version of Chapter 14 appeared in a blog called ‘Engagement’ published by the Anthropology and Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association. A similar version of Chapter 1 appears in Ani Mikaere, Like Moths to the Flame? Restoring the Integrity of Ngāti Raukawa Thought to Ensure our Survival. Our authors have been a joy to work with, sharing their expertise and swiftly responding to our