Articles & Other News

Melanie Nolan- The Diary of Jack McCullough

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:47:17 +1300

Melanie Nolan (ed), War & Class: The Diary of Jack McCullough, Dunmore Press, Wellington, 2009.

Jack McCullough’s diary, begun 100 years ago in 1908, records a period in New Zealand society beset with economic turmoil and war.

McCullough was a political reformer – a pragmatic idealist who worked tirelessly to better the lives of his fellow citizens through protest, union and Arbitration Court activity in matters of industrial relations, wages and employment conditions.

His political activities took him close to the centres of power and he was a very influential figure in the developing socialism of the period.

Gordon Campbell- The Music of 1968

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:24:38 +1300

There is a sort of hungover decadence to much of the key music from 1968. It in no way reflected the revolutionary optimism of Paris ‘68 – instead, the music of 1968 had more in common with the frustrated rage of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, and with the tragic, pissed-off sense of inevitability with which the killings of Martin Luther King and

Peter Franks- The Nil Wage Order

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:54:56 +1300

Peter Franks was a trade union official for over 20 years and now works as an employment mediator. He has published numerous articles on New Zealand labour history. His history of the printing trade unions, Print and Politics, was published in 2001. He is a long-standing committee member of the LHP.

Keith Locke- Reminiscences of a Kiwi student radical in Canada

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:54:32 +1300

Keith Locke has been a Green Party MP since 1999.

Looking back, 1968 was one of the most amazing years of my life.

I was living in Canada at the time. I had gone there in 1966 to study for an MA in Sociology, and to

Mark Derby- Charlie Riley, Uncommon Soldier: The Story of A New Zealand SCW Veteran

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:32:49 +1300

This article, by LHP chair Mark Derby, first appeared in New Zealand Legacy (Journal of the NZ Federation of Historical Societies), Vol. 19, No. 2, 2007. The photographs are reproduced courtesy of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Archives,