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According to NZ Historian Jock Phillips, while Americans took away military/political lessons from the Vietnam War, New Zealand came away with a new sense of national identity. Opposition to the war was couched in nationalistic terms, because like many Commonwealth countries at that time, New Zealanders were carving out a post-colonial role.
Te Ara was developed between 2001 and 2014 and edited by historian Jock Phillips, who oversaw a full-time staff of about 20 writers, editors, image and resource researchers and designers during its creation. [5] In 2010 during the development of the encyclopedia, the decision was made to integrate the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography into Te ...
Olssen's father was a historian and a socialist, who instilled in him a respect for evidence-based scholarship. [12]: 222 He became interested in labour politics in the 1970 and 1980s because he felt socialism offered a way toward justice and equality in New Zealand and his involvement in the working-class Caversham branch of the Labour Party, allowed him to study the development and ...
Leading up to Waitangi Day 2019, history teachers called for "compulsory teaching of New Zealand's Māori and colonial history in schools", prompting responses from Chris Hipkin that the Education Ministry was working on projects to address this, and Kelvin Davis, associate minister of education and Minister for Māori Crown Relations, who said ...
Early European settlement of the area was the result of gold mining, beginning around 1866. [3]: p.102 A Greymouth businessman, Joseph Kilgour, who had mining rights in the area in 1877, later found some seams of coal, and a group of locals advised in 1884 that they were applying for rights to prospect in a site adjacent to Kilgour's.
Jock Phillips (born 1947), New Zealand historian Joel Daniel Phillips (born 1989), American artist Joker Phillips (born 1963), American football player and coach
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 1,100 people and injures more than 1,600 others. Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian presidential election , defeating Rodolfo Hernández Suárez in the runoff .
The 2021 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 17 April to 3 May at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.It was the 45th consecutive year the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible Theatre and was the 15th and final ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season.