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The Featherston Booktown Podcast
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.
Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.
The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand.
The Featherston Booktown Podcast
Invasion! The Waikato War: The Featherston Booktown NZ War History series
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Vincent O’Malley writes that war in the Waikato between July 1863 and April 1864 ‘goes to the very core of who we are as a nation’. The crippling legacy was loss of life, economic and cultural deprivation, land confiscation and over 150 years of ignored hurt and anguish. This kōrero – featuring historians and academics Tom Roa (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto), Joanna Kidman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa), James Belich, Vincent O’Malley and moderator Peter Biggs – shared perspectives on the Waikato War and the way its consequences continue today. The discussion was opened & closed by Paora Ammunson.
Recorded at the 2025 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.