Evelyn Cheesman and the Poisoned Spear
Evelyn Cheesman travelled to Vanuatu and brought back a poison-tipped spear and a new understanding of the natural world.
Pacific Islands
The Moai of Rapa Nui
Easter Island’s stone ancestors carry messages for the gods.
Kings of the Pacific in an Age of Revolution
As the age of revolutions swept across Europe, the Pacific also witnessed dramatic changes when monarchies were rebuilt and societies transformed.
The Roots of Disorder
Botany became an unlikely battlefield in the Age of Revolutions.
Peter Dillon and the South Seas
J.W. Davidson describes how whalers, traders, and settlers represented the first waves of Western colonisation of the Pacific islands.
Bougainville and Tahiti
Arnold Whitridge describes how, in April 1768, Bougainville reached ‘an enchanting island’ in the South Pacific.
Watching Not Whaling
Ann Hills on fishing tales from Hawaii
The Maoris in New Zealand History
When the British and Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Governor Hobson declared: 'We are one people'. Today, as Professor Keith Sinclair shows, this hope has still to be realised.