1840: Bolton Street Cemetary
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Finally managed to visit Bolton Street Cemetery in the weekend before last (ferry hold-ups gave me more time than expected…) Very tidy yet you can feel its age. The graves of many historical figures I know are here including James FitzGerald, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, William Wakefield, and Alexander Turnbull. Theirs are very modest compared to […]
Read more..April 7, 2023
Social Crisis takes priority over Temporal Crisis
By NZB3
In current years the Social Crisis takes priority over any temporal crisis. We’re working some stuff out. Eventually the blow-back from this negligence will create a series of Temporal Crises we will be unable to ignore. Whatever we have worked out about our interior structure will be set in stone for the next 4 generations; […]
Read more..April 6, 2023
1943: The Battle of Manners Street
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Tonight in history, 3 April, 1943, the alleged ‘Battle of Manners Street’. Many government history books in recent decades record this as a scuffle between NZ and US servicemen in central Wellington. Seemingly related to racism toward Maoris and ending up in fatalities for the Americans. However, An Eyewitness History of New Zealand (1985) has […]
Read more..April 3, 2023
1863: “To Make A Cullender of the Colony”
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 28 August, 1863, Lieutenant-Colonel George Dean-Pitt (Jr) established a recruitment office at the Port Phillip Club in Melbourne’s Flinders Street. The Waikato War was underway and Pitt had come from New Zealand looking for fighters. Unfortunately for New Zealand as well as Victorian history the Port Phillip Club was demolished in May 1960. More […]
Read more..April 2, 2023
1843: Woke White Woman Cancels Wairau Affray
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
It has now been 180 years since the Wairau Affray between Colonial lawmen and Maori tribesmen. After showing superior fighting ability victory went to Chiefs Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata of Ngati Toa and was followed up immediately by the Wairau Massacre. In this, the 180th year, this long-standing knowledge has been redacted from the information […]
Read more..March 17, 2023
1843: Waiapawa Mission
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Take a drive along Old Te Aroha Road in eastern Waikato and you can observe a large lichen-encrusted crag of un-improved proto-masonry pointing up to heaven. Those inclined to investigate history will slam on the anchors and back up the car for a second look, much to the eye-rolling of their wives/husband/girlfriends/boyfriends who generally would […]
Read more..March 12, 2023
Dr Akhigbe
By NZB3
Interesting and rare bit of spam appeared on Anarchist History of New Zealand that I had to moderate. Instead of blocking the obvious rubbish I decided to take another approach and respond to it intelligently. But what to say about this? A small Facebook page is trying to get attention for the purported Astrological and […]
Read more..March 11, 2023
Roald Dahl’s AI Revenge
By NZB3
Oh, how they try to rewrite my tales, Those silly PC folks with their politically correct veils. They muddle up the characters and forget the plot, Turning my whimsical stories into a dull, forgetful lot. I feel quite sad for what they’ve done, To twist and change what I’d begun. But fear not, dear readers, […]
Read more..February 23, 2023
2015: Section 501 Transportation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“Anyone will tell you its a prisoner island” according to the song Great Southern Land by Ice House (1982) or “Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them,..” according to Vizzini in Princess Bride (1987.) They say these things because Australia, unlike New Zealand, has a very […]
Read more..February 23, 2023
A Shaw Thing?
By NZB3
2023 Is the year of the General Election and New Zealand must decide to continue with Labour 6.0 or elect National 6.0. Last Friday we were given a taste of what that National 6.0 Government is intended to be. Co-leader of the Green Party, James Shaw, was doing interview rounds in the media about his […]
Read more..February 21, 2023
1878: The Slow Poison of Civilisation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Frederick Maning (1812-1883) lived a very interesting life and was one of the first of our early settlers (1883.) He knew the Maoris well can identified himself in his sharp-witted writings as ‘A Pakeha Maori’. He was prompted in 1873 to comment on the fate of the Maori race… “The Maori are now surrounded by […]
Read more..February 17, 2023
Territory not to be Treaded Lightly
By NZB3
It’s bad enough that our society just at the moment is full of censorship. Rather than an Open Society where all ideas are welcome for consideration and the best win out and are adopted we frequently find conversations constricted to set points of view. It becomes Politically Incorrect or even “violent” to think or to […]
Read more..February 12, 2023
