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Ministry for Culture and Heritage

History Group Staff

Bronwyn Dalley, PhD Otago

Chief Historian

e-mail: bronwyn.dalley@mch.govt.nz

Bronwyn Dalley specialises in New Zealand social and cultural history, particularly in relation to welfare, sexuality, crime, daily life and public history. She is one of the general editors of Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand.

Gavin McLean, PhD Otago, DipMusStud Massey

Senior Historian

e-mail: gavin.mclean@mch.govt.nz

Gavin McLean specialises in business, local and imperial history, and has also written on transport, exhibition and heritage history. He serves on the national executive of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). Gavin is currently writing a history of New Zealand's governors and governors-general, and is one of the general editors of Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand.

Ian McGibbon, ONZM, MA, Lit.D Well

General Editor of War History

e-mail: ian.mcgibbon@mch.govt.nz

Ian McGibbon specialises in the history of New Zealand's defence and foreign policy, and military history. He edits the journal of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, New Zealand International Review. In 1997 he was appointed ONZM for services to historical research. Ian is currently working on a combat history of New Zealanders in the Vietnam War.

Megan Hutching, MA Auck

Senior Oral Historian

e-mail: megan.hutching@mch.govt.nz

Megan Hutching records oral history projects for government agencies, supervises contract oral historians and those who have received Australasian Sesquicentennial Gift Trust Awards in Oral History, and runs training workshops. She is currently working on an oral history project for Births, Deaths & Marriages, and on a series of oral histories recording the experiences of New Zealanders in the Second World War.

David Green, BA Otago

Editor/Historian

e-mail: david.green@mch.govt.nz

David Green edits and writes History Group publications. His areas of interest include Maori/Pakeha relations, war history, sport and society, and the role of the state. He is currently completing a history of New Zealand's artillery and commencing a history of the Audit Office.

Neill Atkinson, MA Auck

Historian

email: neill.atkinson@mch.govt.nz

Neill Atkinson's areas of interest include New Zealand politics and government, transport, the labour movement and the social history of working people. He administers the NZ History Research Trust Fund Awards in History, and is a member of the executive of the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa (PHANZA). His next project will be a study of the state railways and New Zealand society.

Alison Parr, BA Hons Victoria

Oral Historian

email: alison.parr@mch.govt.nz

Alison Parr is an oral historian with a special interest in New Zealanders’ experiences of war. She has set up the From Memory Oral History Project that gathers interviews with Second World War veterans and facilitates the public in recording war stories in their families and communities. Her current project is a book based on oral history interviews with New Zealand veterans of D-Day and the European war.