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Wellington historian Dr Jock Phillips at the Cenotaph.
Wellington historian Dr Jock Phillips has written extensively about war memorials and Anzac Day. He reckons Wellington is a great place to mark Anzac Weekend.
What does it mean to be a Wellingtonian? To be a politics buff, a culture buff and to constantly moan about the wind and the weather – until you suddenly get one of those glorious still autumn days and you start raving about how beautiful Wellington is.
I live here because . At the age of 10 I looked out of the porthole of the inter-island ferry, saw the dramatic hills and harbour and little dotted houses and fell in love. Wellington seemed so exotic after the flatness of Christchurch. I vowed to move here as soon as I left school and I have been here ever since – also kept here, I have to admit as a historian, by the historical treasures in Archives New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library.
- They Called it Passchendaele, Lyn Macdonald, 1978. An English historian details the daily lives and struggles of the much maligned British Tommy on the Western Front.
- Man Alone, John Mulgan, 1939. A novel based around a man named Johnson, a British soldier who was billeted with Kiwis on the Western Front. After the war he came out to New Zealand looking for a better life. Instead, he finds a “grim” country struggling to recover economically from the impact of the war.
- We Will Not Cease, Archibald Baxter, 1939. If there is a book that dispels the myth that New Zealand was fighting for democracy or freedom, this is it. A conscientious objector, Baxter was tortured and sent to a mental hospital for opposing the war.
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