Imelda Bargas and Tim Shoebridge will
talk about their experiences researching and writing the book New Zealand’s
First World War Heritage.
Published by
Exisle Publishing in April 2015 New Zealand’s First World War Heritage
tackles the First World War from a new angle: the places in New Zealand where
it happened. No battles were fought here, but our landscape is signposted with
thousands of poignant memorials and behind the facades of old buildings,
beneath scrub and behind farm fences lies a less visible landscape of war and
hundreds of stories waiting to be told: a soldier’s name carved on a remote
railway station, a once bustling uniform factory in the heart of a city, a long
abandoned gun battery.
Imelda and Tim
searched the country from Northland to Stewart Island and rediscovered a huge
number of places with wartime associations: army camps, fortifications,
soldier-settler farms, convalescent homes and hospitals, cemeteries and war
memorials, dairy factories and woollen mills.
In this talk Imelda and Tim will
explain how they came to work on the book and some of the challenges they faced
putting it together. They’ll also explore the themes covered in the book, using
some of their favourite stories and sites.
About the speakers:
Imelda Bargas and Tim Shoebridge are
Senior Historians in the Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s History Group.
Imelda previously worked as a registration adviser for the then New Zealand
Historic Places Trust while Tim worked as a researcher and report writer at the
Waitangi Tribunal. Imelda has written extensively for NZHistory.net.nz, which
she helps manage. Tim is the author of several books including The Good Citizen
(2009), Quarantine! (with Gavin McLean, 2010), and Featherston Military
Training Camp and the First World War (2011).
Date: Wednesday 6 May at 12.15pm. Venue: Ministry for Culture and Heritage, L4 ASB
House, 101 The Terrace, Wellington. To listen again to MCH History
Group talks go to: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/handsonhistory/downloads-and-podcasts.
For more information about our regular public
history talks please contact lyn.belt@mch.govt.nz
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