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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 1d

My review of the Chris Knox biography.

Book of the Week: To Chris with love newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/b...

Book of the Week: To Chris with love

NZ's best book reviewer on a major biography of the caustic, abrasive, sarcastic and loveable Chris Knox.

newsroom.co.nz

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Regarding North & South, my friend @sarahdaniell.bsky.social, formerly the editor of Canvas, is now editing it – and it's returning in print at the end of November. Good news all round!

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 21h

Application submitted. Momentum is already building with positive feedback to the project coming from government agencies, organisations and prominent individuals whom I greatly respect. Humbled.

Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 4d

Time to get serious writing a funding application for 'A Military History of New Zealand' — the first single-volume history of New Zealand's wars across more than 200 years, set in the context of the development of society and the impact of war on New Zealand and New Zealanders. #MilitaryHistory

Artificial Moonlight by Peter McIntyre. G J Moyle Family Trust

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

I got an advance copy of Craig Robertson's Chris Knox biography 'Not Given Lightly', read it in three days and *really* wanted to write about it. Happily, North & South wanted an online review. (Paywalled, but you can just do a one-week free trial) northandsouth.co.nz/2025/10/09/n...

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 3d

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love.

These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally

opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when...
#aotearoa
@audioculturenz.bsky.social

'Cause, when it all comes down to dust

Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.

opdiner.substack.com

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly

YouTube video by Flying Nun Records

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Publication Day! @craigrobertson.bsky.social 👏@samelworthy.bsky.social 👏 aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/ #PublicationDay #newbook #books #music

Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly

The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude.

aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 1d

Go South! @universityofotago.bsky.social 💛🩵

Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 1d

As a teenager in the 80s entering the aerobics scene I fell hard for the sun beds during the Dunedin winters and then when I became a group fitness instructor sun beds were a employee perk at Les Mills World of Fitness! Lycra, bronze and bata bullets! 🤦

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 2d

That's right search 'Historians' in this Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage document and its returns no results because after 80+ years they're going! Historians matter but not to this government. #HistoryMatters #DontWantToPickYourGhostKumara www.mch.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 2d

My Precious.

Caversham ca. 1926/27 (new Caversham School is visible and opened 26 March 1927). My old fmr State House home at 40 Ryehill St on Calton Hill is certainly still to be built. Aotearoa Series produced by Hugh & G K Neill www.postcard.org.nz/hugh-g-k-nei... #CavvyBoy #Caversham

Aerial view of Dunedin NZ. Carisbrook & Hillside Workshops in foreground. Hocken Digital Collections https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8846

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Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social · 3d

More book reviews published online ahead of print - first up, David A. Roberts reviews ‘Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales’ by Stephen Gapps
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social · 3d

Kate Ariotti reviews ‘Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45’ by Joan Beaumont
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent!

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 4d

Auckland University Press now have an extract of long-awaited Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox — out this Thursday, 9 October! @audioculturenz.bsky.social aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/?...

Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly

The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude.

aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 4d

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 4d

Time to get serious writing a funding application for 'A Military History of New Zealand' — the first single-volume history of New Zealand's wars across more than 200 years, set in the context of the development of society and the impact of war on New Zealand and New Zealanders. #MilitaryHistory

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 5d

The City to Sea Bridge (1993) marks not only the foundational legacy of Māori architect Rewi Thompson but is a marker of a transformational epoch in the history of Wellington when its citizens dreamed and delivered “the coolest little capital in the world”. www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

The City to Sea Bridge and the legacy of trailblazing Māori architect Rewi Thompson

The fate of the bridge described as a turning point for Māori architecture has swung back and forth over the past few months.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 5d

This is what I expected to find in the collection of a keen photographer living in Dunedin in the mid-1920s. The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition lit up at night on 1 May 1926 for Albert Percy Godber would have been like a moth to a flame. #LoganPark #Dunedin

The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition lit up at night, May 1926. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1920-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 5d

Of course thanks, I wondered about the early hours clientele!

Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 5d

Another Godbar panorama showing 'The Flat' 100 years ago. On the left Donaghy's rope walk next to Bathgate Park and in the centre Macandrew School surrounded by Chinese market gardens where today is found King's and Queen's High Schools. On the right the imposing Caversham Benevolent Institute.

Part one of a three part panorama of Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1898-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

Part two of a three part panorama of Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1887-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 5d

Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura and their daughter Phyllis outside their house at 9 Baker Street, Caversham, Dunedin ca. 1927. A carving in Maori style above the doorway was probably carved by Godber himself.

Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and their daughter Phyllis outside their home in Dunedin.. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1049-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 5d

A panorama of the old hood of South Dunedin 'The Flat' 100 years ago with Hillside Railway Workshops in the foreground taken in October 1925 by railway employee and amateur photographer Albert Percy Godber who lived in shot at 9 Baker Street, Caversham. #CavvyBoy #Caversham #SouthDunedin #Dunedin

Part 1 of a 2-part panorama of the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1053-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

Part 2 of a 2-part panorama of the Hillside Railway Workshops, Dunedin. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1052-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 6d

At the grave of Dave Gallaher in @CWGC Nine Elms British Cemetery, west of Poperinge in Belgium, for the centenary of his death on 4 October 2017. 🇧🇪 🇳🇿

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 6d

On this day 108 years ago the captain of the 1905 ‘Originals’ All Blacks Sergeant David Gallaher, Auckland Infantry Regiment, was mortally wounded during the Battle of Broodseinde near Passchendaele on 4 October 1917.

Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou
We will remember them
#AllBlacks #Broodseinde

Sergeant David Gallaher, 1917
Photographer Herman John Schmidt (1872-1959)
31-G4259 Schmidt Collection
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-G4259

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