Meet the NZHistory web team

The NZHistory website is produced by a small team within the History Group and Web Team of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and draws on the experience and skills of some of New Zealand's leading historians.

NZHistory.net.nz team:

• Neill Atkinson, Chief Historian, oversees the historical content of NZHistory. He has written on the social history of rail and maritime transport, as well as on New Zealand political, labour and sports history.
• Imelda Bargas, Historian, joined the NZHistory team in 2008. Her main areas of interest are heritage, politics, war and history in schools.
• David Green, Editor/Historian, is currently working on NZHistory. His areas of interest are war, sport and the New Zealand state. David's guidebook to New Zealand Wars battlefields was published in 2010.
• Jamie Mackay, Team Leader Content Management, is primarily responsible for the technical development of NZHistory content. A trained historian, Jamie worked for five years on the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography project before starting NZHistory in 1998.
• Gareth Phipps, Senior Content Officer (History), works on NZHistory and the Vietnam War website, www.VietnamWar.govt.nz.
• Matthew Tonks, Content Officer.
• Steve Watters, Historian, co-ordinates The Classroom section of the site, which is aimed at teachers and students from Years 6 to 13. Before joining the History Group, Steve taught history in secondary schools in the Wellington area for a number of years. He has also been the main compiler of Today in History.

Other History Group contributors:

• Damien Fenton, Senior Historian, joined the group in late 2008 to work on First World War Centennial projects. His areas of interest include both the First and Second World Wars, Southeast Asia during the Cold War and New Zealand and Australian defence and foreign policy.
• Caroline Lord, Researcher, joined the Group in 2010 to work on our First World War print and web projects.
• Ian McGibbon, General Editor War History, specialises in the history of New Zealand's defence and foreign policy, and military history.
• Gavin McLean, Senior Historian, specialises in business, local and imperial history, and has also written widely on maritime transport, exhibition and heritage history.
• Alison Parr, Senior Oral Historian, is interested in the social history of war and its impact on society and individuals. She co-ordinates the war oral history programme, From memory, and works with other oral historians to gather the memories of New Zealanders' experiences of war, including the Second World War, J Force and Korea.
• Tim Shoebridge, Historian, joined the History Group in 2008; he is currently working on projects on the First World War and motoring history.
• Monty Soutar is Project Co-ordinator for the 28th Maori Battalion website and also a contributor to NZHistory.

Other contributors:

Bronwyn Dalley, former Manager Heritage Services and Chief Historian, played a major role in the development of NZHistory from 1999 to 2011. Kynan Gentry was also a key member of the NZHistory team from 2005 to 2008.

Others people who have contributed content to NZHistory as MCH staff members, contract historians or during student placements include: Emma Brewerton, Susan Butterworth, Karen Cameron, Simon Daisley, Mark Derby, Paul Diamond, Amy Donald, Georgina Fell, Megan Hutching, Linda Jeffrey, Frances Maciver, John E. Martin, Simon Nathan, Claudia Orange, Andy Palmer, Jock Phillips, Margaret Pointer, Roberto Rabel, Jean Sergent-Shadbolt, Andrew Schmidt, Ben Schrader, Carl Walrond and Redmer Yska.