Judith Binney
By Denis Welch in Commentary
Issue 3693
19th Feb 2011
Historian and author Judith Binney died last night at her home in Auckland. In August 2010, Denis Welch spoke to Binney about her benchmark book, Encircled Lands, a history of Te Urewera from 1820 to 1921.
‘One of the great scandals’
By Denis Welch in Commentary
Issue 3665
7th Aug 2010
It's over a century since Prime Minister Richard Seddon ensured legal status for Tuhoe's territory. Yet in 2010, author Judith Binney points out, ownership of the Urewera has still not been settled.
Their back pages
By Denis Welch in Books
Issue 3663
24th Jul 2010
The lending library of a 19th-century sheep station was Lydia Wevers's entrée into not just colonial reading habits, but a farming world that was like a novel in itself.