Post Archive
Category: archives
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S Carpenter, PhD Thesis, 2020: Reshaping political communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Although my PhD thesis has been available for several years through the Massey University library webpage, I have not made it directly available myself. Since I have, however, now used…
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Conference paper: Henry Williams’ intellectual formation in English Dissent
… and his views on the Waitara controversy, c. 1860. The slides and recording below represent a conference paper given at the New Zealand Historical Association Conference last week, at…
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Marianne Williams and the Missionary Impulse
In this postcolonial age, many things are said and written concerning missionaries to foreign/ indigenous lands. I have just been reading a source which reveals that in its purest, Christian…
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Talk at National Library on Henry Williams + Te Tiriti
I was invited by the National Library, “E Oho! Waitangi!” series, to share my research and insights into Henry Williams’ translation of the Treaty of Waitangi. I append below my…
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The Church Missionary Society settlement at Paihia, 1820s-40s
Recently I’ve been seeking to understand the core mission ideas, practices and day-to-day realities of the Paihia mission – the leading mission station of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in…
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From the Archives, no. 8
I have taken great pleasure recently in writing a concise narrative of the great sea battle of January 1815 between HMS Endymion and USS President, which took place at the…
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From the Archives, no. 7
Microcosm of a missionary library – Church Missionary Society, New Zealand, 1824. Yesterday, I came across this fascinating little insight into the reading world of an early nineteenth century, evangelical…
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From the Archives, no. 6
Research at Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) last week delivered some remarkable documents and taonga, including this whakapapa showing descent from Hoturua (leader of the Tainui waka) and baptism registers revealing…
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From the Archives, no. 5 –
Memorial to Henry Williams from the Māori Church, 1876. As I’m nearing the end of a draft of a new biography of Henry Williams, I’m reading some fascinating newspaper material…
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From the Archives, no. 4: early printed versions of He Wakaputanga 1835 and Te Tiriti 1840 – printed at the Paihia mission press
I came across these in my files this week and just thought I would post them here: first, because they are beautifully clear printing efforts by William Colenso (in 1836)…
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#From the Archives, no. 3
Henry Williams’ account of the spread of Christianity like wildfire along Kāpiti Coast under teacher Ripahau; and the challenge of working in parallel with Wesleyan missionaries! Henry Williams to CMS,…
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#From the Archives, no. 2
In writing a Concise Life of Henry Williams, I am busy tracking down some critical primary sources. One important set of these are the journals of his uncle, the musician…
Samuel D Carpenter 