Located! NZ found on 865 Year Old Itallian Map
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Some early New Zealand historians (eg Eccles, Mackay) were willing to suggest Western discovery prior to Able Tasman. If so, the credit would go to Al-Idrisi (1154AD) for adding this to his famous manuscript and map ‘Tabula Rogeriana’. His King (of Italy) was actually Norman, having pulled off a similar caper in Italy as William […]
Read more..January 9, 2019
1867: Pheasant, blackbirds, thrushes and starlings
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
151 years of blackbirds and thrushes in Cantab! 10 January, 1867: The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society released imported pheasant, blackbirds, thrushes and starlings, according to DISCO. All of these birds are alive and well in Canterbury today. It was also around this time that the Society introduced the Australian magpie. Disastrous impact on native flora and […]
Read more..January 7, 2019
1834: Busby’s Shingle
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Mr Zam has made another exciting discovery on the Online Free Market Museum known as Trade Me’s Antiques & Collectables section. Genuine hand split kauri shingle from the roof of original treaty house ( 1834 ) Waitangi Bay of Islands New Zealand. It may date from 1934 when the Treaty House got a much needed renovation. […]
Read more..January 6, 2019
1934: First Waitangi Day
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Until 1932, the Waitangi Treaty Grounds and the Treaty House were in a shambles. The Governor General and his wife were appealed to and in a private act of charity purchased Waitangi along with 1000 acres of land as part of the estate. In 1934 all was ready for New Zealand’s first Waitangi Day. This […]
Read more..January 6, 2019
1932: A Funeral for the Rules
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Wanganui, 1932: Police and newspapermen led by a clergyman are pallbearing some football rules to the grave. Weird right? For a change, I’m not going to try to unravel what’s going on here specifically. Instead, let’s take a moment to reflect on the importance and need for historical events to be re-experienced and re-interpreted by […]
Read more..January 5, 2019
Most Radical Idea of the Human Race
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Since the Education Act (1877) was passed in New Zealand things have really been going down hill. — Image ref. The Underground History of American Education Post syndicated from http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/most-radical-idea-of-the-human-race/.
Read more..January 4, 2019
1772: Marion Du Fresne’s Massacre
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne was an early French explorer to New Zealand, visiting the Bay of Islands in May 1772. Initially, the crew of the two ships he commanded got on really well with the local Maoris. Then, without warning, de Fresne and 27 of his men were betrayed in an ambush and massacred then eaten. […]
Read more..January 3, 2019
1987: Te Morehu Cairn
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Taking the long way back to Auckland from the Coromandal I spied this interesting neglected monument. There was no chance to stop or go back or a consensus to do so which is why I should always be driving to avoid such oversights. So, I made a point to explore this marker along Kawakawa-Orere Rd a […]
Read more..January 2, 2019
1972: Germaine Greer visits
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Feminism 2.0 came to New Zealand in about 1970 when the first woman’s liberation activity started popping up. Conventions, groups, rape Crisis centers, women’s refuges, womens studies courses, and their very own magazine in 1972, Broadsheet. Lynley Hood, distinguishes the two forms this Second Wave took as Evolutionary and Revolutionary. The Evolutionary Feminists picked up […]
Read more..January 1, 2019
New Years Tax Bonfire
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
As far as government tax money laundering schemes go I wouldn’t like to choose between road works and fire works. “Every time the government spends tax dollars on a program, think: would I kill my kindly, grey haired grandma to secure funding for this?”- P. J. O’Rourke New Zealand spends about 10% of the national budget […]
Read more..January 1, 2019
