On 8 November 1639, Willem Leyel leaves Denmark as commander of the ship "Christianshavn". The destination is the Danish possession Tranquebar with...

The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, ...

Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when ...

What was it like to be involved in the heady days of ‘second wave’ feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...

Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...

"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive." --Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates ho...

Before email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were im...

This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and ninja craze that swept a region of ...

Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...

The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...

The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...

A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...

This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...

This book explores the ways in which Palestinian female terrorists have injected their narrative into the Arab, American and even Israeli media. Th...

The Women for Victory series provides a thorough and authoritative reference for American servicewomen?s history and uniforms of WWII, and is desig...

This volume tells the stories of women who worked legally, in their own names, in early modern Copenhagen. They were to be found on the streets sel...

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...

From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand’s nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we...

In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...