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Bert Roth Award For Labour History
The Bert Roth Award for Labour History, named for the late historian Bert Roth, is presented annually by the Labour History Project to the work that best depicts the history of work and resistance in New Zealand. It was created in May 2013 in recognition of Roth's contribution to labour movement archives and history. Recipients * 2014: Rebecca Macfie, ''Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and why 29 Men died'' (Awa Press) * 2015: Nicholas Hoare ''Imperial Dissenters: Anti-Colonial Voices in New Zealand, 1883-1945'', MA, Victoria University of Wellington * 2016: Melissa Williams, ''Pangaru in the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua'' (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books) * 2017: ''Poi E: The Story of our Song'', directed by Tearepa Kahi * 2018: Helen McNeil, ''A Striking Truth'' (Cloud Ink Press). Runner-up: Renée, ''These Two Hands: a memoir'' (Mākaro Press) * 2019: David Haines and Jonathan West, "Crew Cultures in the Tasman World" in Francis Steele, ed., ''New Zealand and the Sea: His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Roth
Herbert Otto Roth (7 December 1917 – 27 May 1994) was a notable New Zealand socialist, labourer, librarian and historian. He was born in Vienna, Austria in 1917. In Austria, he was known as "Otti" but in New Zealand he was known as "Bert". Roth was the leader of the Red Falcons in Austria. He fled from thereto avoid conscription after having sworn an allegiance to Adolf Hitler. He then lived in Grenoble, where he was later imprisoned as an enemy alien. His mother managed to organise a permit for him to emigrate to New Zealand, and he arrived in Wellington in April 1940. He immediately became politically active in left-wing circles, but was forbidden by the Department of Justice to take on official positions, as he was classed as an enemy alien. Roth applied for naturalisation in 1944, and was granted citizenship in March 1946. Roth joined the Air Force and this allowed him to study towards a Bachelor of Arts degree at Victoria University College. After attending the New Zea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Macfie
Rebecca Macfie is a New Zealand author and journalist. Background Macfie lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has a BA and Post Graduate Diploma in Arts in History from the University of Otago, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Canterbury. She has an adult son and an adult daughter. Career Macfie has worked as a journalist since 1988. In 2007 Macfie joined the ''New Zealand Listener'' as a writer for the South Island. She has also wbeen published with The Star (Christchurch), ''The Star'', ''The Press'', ''National Business Review'', ''Independent Business Weekly'', ''North & South (New Zealand magazine), North & South'', ''Unlimited'', and the ''The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Herald''. In 2013 she published ''Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died'', a non-fiction work on the Pike River Mine disaster that claimed 29 lives. Awards For her work with the ''New Zealand Listener'' Macfie won the Magazine Feature Writer Busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Williams Books
Bridget Williams Books is a New Zealand book publisher, established in 1990 by Bridget Williams. Establishment Williams established the company in 1990 when the company she was working for, Allen & Unwin, was sold. She purchased the titles which she had developed as Allen & Unwin's managing director and started her own publishing company. Williams' vision for the company was for it to publish "good books that sell" – books with significant messages. Her personal interests in women's and Māori history, and New Zealand general history, have influenced the books that the company publishes. From 1995 to 1998, the company published under a joint imprint with Auckland University Press, before returning to independent publisher status in 1998. Development In 2006, the company established the Bridget Williams Publishing Trust, which applies for grants from philanthropic organisations to support publication of specific titles. For example, in 2013 the J.R. McKenzie Trust provided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poi E
"Poi E" is a New Zealand 1984 number-one hit song by the group Pātea Māori Club off the album of the same name. Released in 1984, the song was sung entirely in the Māori language and featured a blend of Māori cultural practices in the song and accompanying music video, including Māori chanting, poi dancing, and the wearing of traditional Māori (garments). The song reached No 1 in New Zealand in each of the following 3 decades.Mitchell, Tony. "Kia Kaha! (Be Strong!): Maori and Pacific Islander Hip-hop in Aotearoa-New Zealand." In Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA, ed. Tony Mitchell, 280-305. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. The song topped the New Zealand pop charts for four weeks and also became the biggest seller in New Zealand for 1984, "outselling all international recording artists.""The History." accessed 11 April 2008Poi-E home page. Today the song maintains its status as a cult classic in non-Māori New Zealand, as the group behind it, Pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tearepa Kahi
Tearepa Kahi (born 16 March 1994), also known as Te Arepa Kahi, is a New Zealand film director and former actor of Ngāti Paoa and Waikato Tainui descent. Kahi is best known for the 2013 drama '' Mt. Zion'' starring Stan Walker, and the Pātea Māori Club documentary '' Poi E: The Story of a Song'' (2016). Biography Kahi grew up in Christchurch, and is of Ngāti Paoa and Waikato Tainui descent. Kahi's father was a musician who toured with Billy TK. As a teenager, he spent two years as a part of a theatre troupe run by actor Jim Moriarty. Moving to his grandmother's house in Pukekohe, Kahi studied history and Māori at the University of Auckland. From 1999 to 2002, Kahi acted in minor roles on television shows including ''Shortland Street'', ''Mataku'' and ''Aroha – Irikura'', and in the Don Selwyn film ''The Maori Merchant of Venice'' (2002). Kahi's co-wrote the short film ''The Speaker'' with rapper Savage, which won the award for best short film at the Wairoa Māori Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mākaro Press
Mākaro Press is a New Zealand publisher based in Wellington. It was founded in 2013 and has published several award-winning books including ''Auē'' by Becky Manawatu. History Mākaro was founded in 2013 by novelist and editor Mary McCallum and her son Paul Stewart. McCallum had been editing an anthology of writers from Eastbourne and decided to publish it herself, with her son joining to assist with the project. Over the first five years of its operation, Mākaro published over seventy books in a variety of genres including both fiction and non-fiction. In 2014 it published the best-selling ''The Book of Hat'' by Harriet Rowland, a young woman suffering from terminal cancer, which received a Storylines Notable Book Award and was a finalist in the non-fiction category at the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Rowland died shortly after the book was released. In 2018, McCallum and Stewart decided to focus on publishing New Zealand debut fiction, beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago University Press
Otago University Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of Otago. The press is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Otago University Press is the oldest academic publisher in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Otago University Press publishes non-fiction and poetry and is also the publisher of the literary journal Landfall Landfall is the event of a storm moving over land after being over water. More broadly, and in relation to human travel, it refers to 'the first land that is reached or seen at the end of a journey across the sea or through the air, or the fact .... Otago University Press has published award-winning books, including ''Tumble'' by Joannna Preston, winner of the 2022 Ockham Award for Poetry. References University of Otago Academic publishing companies Book publishing companies of New Zealand University presses of New Zealand {{NewZealand-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Kelly (trade Unionist)
Helen Kelly (19 September 1964 – 14 October 2016) was President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions from 2007 to 2015. Early life Kelly was born in Wellington on 19 September 1964 to Pat Kelly and Catherine Eichelbaum, both strong social activists – Pat was a well-known unionist and Cath was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement – who met while selling a communist newspaper, ''People's Voice''. Catherine was a cousin of Chief Justice Thomas Eichelbaum. She said of her childhood:"I was brought up on unions. Mum would wake us by singing, "Wake up darlings from your slumbers". I used to play at going to meetings, rather than dress-up dolls. Our home was union central. We always had visitors who were discussing union business." Kelly attended Wellington High School. In 1983 she enrolled in a Diploma in Teaching at Wellington Teachers College and was elected President of the Association of Wellington Teachers College Trainees (AWTCT) the following year. She later stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labor History
Labor history or labour history is a sub-discipline of social history which specialises on the history of the working classes and the labor movement. Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other factors besides class but chiefly focus on urban or industrial societies which distinguishes it from rural history. The central concerns of labor historians include industrial relations and forms of labor protest (strikes, lock-outs), the rise of mass politics (especially the rise of socialism) and the social and cultural history of the industrial working classes. Labor history developed in tandem with the growth of a self-conscious working-class political movement in many Western countries in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Whilst early labor historians were drawn to protest movements such as Luddism and Chartism, the focus of labor history was often on institutions: chiefly the labor unions and political parties. Exponents of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Literary Awards
Current and historic literary awards in New Zealand include: See also * New Zealand literature References {{reflist Literary awards A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ... New Zealand literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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