Bibliography
Major Publications
Books and pamphlets
NEW: A Gent in Overseasia. Blythswood Press [978-0-473-69400-5] 2023
The Scone in New Zealand Literature and Other Essays 1990-2020. The Blythswood Press, 2022. [978-0-473-62186-5]
The Sugarbag Years (Alister Taylor Martinborough) 1974, Reprinted Hodder & Stoughton 1983, Penguin Books 1990, and Godwit Publishing 1997. [0340 25822X]
The Road to Erewhon (Beaux Arts Auckland) 1976 [0589 00972 9]
The Scrim-Lee Papers with C G Scrimgeour & John A Lee (Reed Wellington) 1977
Te Riri Pakeha (Alister Taylor Martinborough) 1979. Reprinted Hodder & Stoughton 1983 [0340 401095]
Operation Mercury: The Battle for Crete 1941 (Hodder & Stoughton London) 1981 [0340 23118 1]
What Happened at Rangiaowhia (National Council of Churches Auckland) 1983
A Vision Betrayed: The Decline of Democracy in New Zealand (Hodder & Stoughton Auckland) 1984 [0340 338768]
An Innocent Delight (Hodder & Stoughton Auckland) 1986 [0340 358211]
The Slump (Penguin) 1990 A narrative history of the Depression of the thirties. As a joint imprint with the reprinted The Sugarbag Years [614 012752 8]
A Cargo of Flax (Blacklight) 1991
Shame and Disgrace : A History of Lost Scandals (Penguin) 1992 [0140 127518]
Art & Massacre : Documentary Racism in ‘The Burning of the Boyd’ (Cultural Construction 1993) 0473 01828 4
The Immigrants (Godwit Publishing 1997)
A Distant Feast (Random House 1999 reprinted in a new format 2008) 1 869 62 037 2
Ambiguity & Innocence: The New Zealand Division and the Occupation of Trieste May 1945 (Silver Owl 2013) 978 0 9864519 8 0
Before Hobson New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi & the Wider World (Blythswood Press 2015) 978 0 473 31284 8
Along For The Ride: A Political Memoir (Blythswood Press 2017)
Other principal publications and presentations
‘The Folk Culture of the Dispossessed’ in Maorilander 5 (Journal of the New Zealand Folklore Society) Autumn 1972
This Laughing Business New Zealand Listener no 1835:8 1975
The Night the Ghost Came Home New Zealand Listener no 1838:15 1975
‘Huey Long’s Other Island’ in S Levine (ed) New Zealand Politics : A Reader (Cheshire Wellington) 1975
Pity the Poor Union Man New Zealand Listener no 1902:13 May 1976
How the Arts Was Lost New Zealand Listener no 1960:10 July 1977
Narrative Situations : A Study Guide (Deakin University 1980). This is a guide used in university courses in which the students take a course in Australian and comparative history. It uses The Sugarbag Years as an integral source
The Thyssen Connection PSA Journal January 1981
‘Six Ways to Cook a Rabbit’ in The Summer Book (Port Nicholson Press) 1982
Liberalism Stripped Bare – Patu PSA Journal July 1983
Who Runs the Country Anyway? in New Outlook July/August 1984
The Librarians’ Enemies Made Plain and Simple in New Zealand Libraries 1985
The Holt Narrative and the Industrial Relations Agenda’ in New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations 12143-155 1987.
User Pays? AGMANZ Journal Winter 1987
‘Experience, Lived and Perceived’ in Oral History in New Zealand 1988
Departmental Culture and the Process of Change Within New Zealand Customs. A major research study undertaken for the New Zealand Customs Department 1989.
Poverty and Picturesque Essay for inclusion in the catalogue of an National Gallery photographic exhibition to mark the sesquicentennial 1990
Where Workers Come From Inaugural address to the Manawatu WEA Winter Lectures Series April 1990
The Impossible Archivist Paper presented to the Archives and Records Association Conference, Dunedin August 1991
State House Furnishings and Working Class Culture in New Zealand Historic Places June 1991
One more truth about the Treaty in Mana Tiriti : The Art of Protest and Partnership Project Waitangi & Wellington City Art Gallery 1991
The ‘No Change’ Election of 1990 in Landfall 179 September 1991
What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been in Illusion 18 Summer 1991/92
Alexander Berry and the Burning of the Boyd : Historical evidence and the hidden agenda Seminar presented at the Stout Research Centre 22/7/92
Contesting the Middle Ground : Liberal to Labour 1919-1935 Paper presented to 9th Annual Stout Centre Conference 1992 ‘The Bit In Between : Between the Wars 1918-1936’
The Employment Contracts Act in the State Sector in R Harbridge Employment Contracts, New Zealand Experiences Victoria University Press (1993)
Parallel Importing & New Zealand Writers Research analysis commissioned by PEN(NZ) August 1992
Colenso’s Scruple : The Missionary Response to the Treaty of Waitangi in Political Science Vol 44 No 2 December 1992
The Scone in New Zealand Literature : A Post Modernist Approach Opening Address to Readers and Writers Biennial Conference Dunedin March 1993
Firmly Anchored in the Past a major review article concerning recent history publishing in New Zealand in New Zealand Books Vol2 No4 March 1993
No More In Thrall in New Zealand Political Review April 1994
The Ivy Covered Cutting Edge : History in the Universities in New Zealand Historical Association Newsletter June 1994
Leaving for New Zealand Keynote address to the Heart Politics Conference, Taupo January 1995
The Treaty Speaks to Pakeha : Paper presented in the 1995 Victoria University Centre for Continuing Education lecture series which was subsequently published as The Treaty of Waitangi : Towards 2000.
Planning to Win : How Customs Came Up Smiling : Paper presented to a national Strategic Planning Conference Wellington 27 November 1995
Abolition of the Literature Committee Research paper prepared for the NZSA July 1996 as a prelude to the Arts Council Literature Forum Auckland August 1996
Public Sector Structural Reform : A Failed Counter-revolution? Paper presented to Stout Centre Seminar Series “Áfter the Revolution?” 5 March 1997
Has the ECA sounded the death knell of the union movement? : Seminar presented to post graduate business studies students, Otago University, April 1997
The Sugarbag Years and Beyond keynote address to the NLP annual conference Waikato University June 1997
Poopdeck & Steerage : finding and using primary sources on nineteenth century immigration to New Zealand. Address to Petone Settlers’ Museum June 1997 seminar series, subsequently also given to the New Zealand Founders’ Society annual meeting 30 June 1997 and to a wide range of other historical and genealogical societies
Art and Lies : a presentation as a part of the National Library lecture series for the exhibition Wide Eyed, and exploring aspects of the role of art in propaganda during the early period of European colonisation in New Zealand.
Steerage to Poopdeck : The development of a Food Tradition in New Zealand. Keynote address to Food Communications : Seducing the Appetite Beyond 2000. New Zealand Guild of Foodwriters’ Conference 3-5 October 1997 This address subsequently published as From Steerage to Poopdeck in Pen & Palate Issue 4 September 1998
Old Fears, New Loathings : New Zealand on the Brink of the Millenium in Today’s Actions, Tomorrow’s Landscapes, Keynote address to the 25th Anniversary conference of the NZ Institute of Landscape Architects, published in the proceeding of the Conference March 1998
From the Celtic Fringe in New Zealand Books Vol 8 No 2 June 1998
Salt Beef and the Farmers’ Ordinary Seminar given at the Stout Centre, Victoria University 23 September 1998
Review of ‘Never a White Flag’ in Kotare Vol 1 No 1 October 1998 (Victoria University of Wellington)
Rock and Roll Hero in Political Review Vol 3 No 1 February 1999
Like Lambs … in New Zealand Books Vol 9 No 3 August 1999
Our Democracy : Where Did It Go? in New Zealand Humanist No143 September 1999
The Night the Ghost Came Home in The Listener Bedside Book No3 December 1999
Identity & Memory : Seminar presented at the Stout Centre May 2000
The Shocking History of the New Zealand Scone : Paper presented to the Wellington Symposium of Gastronomy, 16-18 March 2001 and printed in the Symposium Proceedings November 2001
Meet the Monsters Review article in New Zealand Books Volume 11 No 5 December 2001
Mann in Venedig: Venice and the European Literary Imagination. Seminar presented to the Goethe Society July 2002
History, Law and Social Security Seminar presented to senior law students Victoria University of Wellington July 2002 – 2005
Introduction to William Main Facing an Era 2006
Alchemy, Erotics and the Wife of Bath Presentation as component in a National Library seminar series ‘Butterflies, Boffins and Black Smokers: Two Hundred Years of Science in New Zealand’ October 2006
“Looks like it’s open season on queers” Presentation to the LAGANZ 20 Years On – Homosexual Law Reform Conference 1-2 December 2006 subsequently published in A Laurie and L Evans (eds) Twenty Years On: Histories of Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand (LAGANZ 2009)
Rogues of Thorndon Presentation to Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society March 2007
Warning: Folklore Can Damage Your Health Paper to the 2nd National Folklore Symposium 1 December 2007
Customs Revenues and Tariffs Entry for the New Zealand Encyclopaedia November 2008
Getting to Dublin and Oliver’s Conundrum Two presentations to the History Teachers’ Annual Conference Auckland August 2009
Is Queen Anne Dead? Presentation on copyright law to the Australasian Writing Teachers Conference Hamilton November 2009
New Zealand in Norwegian Presentation to a visiting delegation of Norwegian Parliamentarians September 2010
Miss Beauchamp and the Servants paper presented to the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society: Winter Lectures ‘A Question of Class in New ZealandSeptember 2010
Mr Wakefield and Dr Marx Keynote Presentation to the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists June 2014
In addition to these items I have numerous credits in a range of magazines and journals both in New Zealand and in other countries. These include The Listener, the New Zealand Law Journal, the New Statesman and The Guardian (London). I also have credits as writer and/or producer in respect of a variety of film, television and radio documentary programmes extending over several decades commencing in the late sixties. For a short period in the nineteen seventies I worked as a sub-editor on the London Evening Standard.