HistoryWorks is pleased to announce that we are now able to offer businesses and organisations interactive workshops on Aotearoa New Zealand history, led and facilitated by acclaimed historian Dr Vincent O’Malley. Your staff will learn about the history of Māori…
Please note that, as of January 2024, HistoryWorks no longer has a postal box. Mail should instead be delivered to us at Level 6, 120 Featherston Street, Wellington 6011.
Founding partner David Armstrong formally retired as a director of HistoryWorks on 15 December 2023, after a career as a historian working in the Treaty of Waitangi sector lasting more than three decades. David will be completing outstanding work for…
Dr Vincent O’Malley has been awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal for his contribution to the research, knowledge, and public understanding of New Zealand history, particularly of the New Zealand Wars and Māori-Pākehā relations throughout the nineteenth century. Dr Vincent O’Malley…
HistoryWorks Director Dr Vincent O’Malley has received the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction for 2022. Dr O’Malley’s landmark book on the Waikato War, The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800–2000, was published to acclaim in…
Congratulations to HistoryWorks Director Vincent O’Malley, whose book, Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books), last week won the hotly-contested General Non-Fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The judges…
Published late last year, Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books), by HistoryWorks Director Dr Vincent O’Malley is a finalist in the General Non-Fiction Category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.…
Congratulations to HistoryWorks Director Dr Vincent O’Malley, who was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society for his contribution to historical scholarship.
After fifteen years in Boulcott Street, HistoryWorks has recently moved to new premises in central Wellington, close to the National Library and Archives New Zealand. We are now based at level 6, 120 Featherston Street, Wellington 6011 (on the corner…
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation’s history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Māori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life…
