When you think of people from New Zealand, what do you envision? White people? Maybe semi-British, semi-Australian sounding people? Maybe a famous person from a movie youve seen or love? Thats exactly what I used to imagine in my mind. And because of colonialism and globalization, its almost exactly
With eight hundred thousand people in the 18th century, London was the largest city in Europe, where the greatest fortunes of the British Empire could be found and the most miserable neighborhoods in which homeless people, petty thieves, prostitutes... simply survived. Crimes against property were t
In the era of partitions, many Poles were seduced by dreams of establishing New Poland in remote corners of the globe. There were projects to create a national team in Africa, Oceania and Brazil. One daredevil also pushed the idea to settle the uninhabited areas of Western Australia. What came out o
Australian writer and activist, Faith Bandler (1918 – 2015) organized a campaign for Aboriginal citizenship and worked for the recognition of crimes committed against local populations. The blackbirders Faith Bandler was born on September 27, 1918 as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, in Tumbulgum, New