History

A review of Jared Davidson's 'Blood and dirt: prison labo...

Recently, I read Jared Davidson's compelling new book on the relatively unknown history of prison labour in...

issue 148 december-january 2023

Bold as brass, 100 years on

Where there’s muck, there’s brass. It’s an old saying that rings true in Takapuna. Next to the...

issue 146 october 2023

The origins of Taharoto Park - Part One

Previously I have written about Sir Frederick Whitaker, Dr Carl Franz ‘Frank’ Fischer and Henry Hopper...

issue 145 september 2023

Goodbye to the North Shore Historical Society

My parents and I became members of the North Shore Historical Society in the very early 1990s, and at that time...

issue 144 august 2023