• Being there and being then: Ideal presence and historical tourism 

  Weston, Rowland (University of Waikato, 2011)

  Should history be affecting? Should we engage with it emotionally? These concerns were central to eighteenth and nineteenth century historiography and remain relevant to historians, especially public historians. Eighteenth ...

  

• Book review: “England's First Family of Writers” and “Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography” 

  Weston, Rowland (2010)

  This article reviews the books: “England's First Family of Writers” and “Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography”

• Book reviews: "Godwinian Moments: From the enlightenment to romanticism" and "The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797" 

  Weston, Rowland (Université de Rouen, 2012)

  This article reviews the books: “Godwinian Moments: from the Enlightenment to Romanticism” edited by Robert Maniquis & Victoria Myers and “The Letters of William Godwin. Volume 1: 1778-1797” edited by Pamela Clemit.

• History, Memory, and Moral Knowledge: William Godwin's Essay on Sepulchres (1809) 

  Weston, Rowland (Routledge, 2009)

  In 1809 the radical English philosopher, novelist, and historian William Godwin published Essay on Sepulchres—a proposal to mark the burial sites of the morally great with a simple wooden cross. This paper explores Godwin's ...

  

• Teaching history is talking history 

  Weston, Rowland (University of Waikato, 2011)

  Like many teachers, my early practice was in equal parts reiteration and repudiation of the models to which I had been exposed as a student. As a consequence of my own shyness I took great efforts not to place students ...

  

• A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s 

  Nicholson, Blair (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis ...

  

• Sport in the Waikato c.1897-1974: Narratives of Play, Identity and Belonging 

  Buckley, Karen (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Regional identities and allegiances in New Zealand have most often been revealed at sporting events. From the colours worn, the slogans chanted, and even the ringing of cowbells, players, teams and supporters have presented ...

  

• Curst Shrews and Venomous Scolds: The Societal and Legal Reactive Processes to Dangerous and Unideal Female Speech in Early Modern England 

  Rhodes, Athena (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis argues that in seventeenth century England, the tongue, or more specifically the female tongue, was understood as a fleshy weapon wielded to inflict misery and chaos on men. In response, early modern society ...

  

• Using the Past: Learning Histories, Public Histories and Possibilities 

  Smith, Mark Samuel (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis explores the contemporary meaning of history and the relevance of history, historical knowledge and historical methodology for organisations. This research does so through a novel adaptation of a consulting ...

  

• 'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 

  Speedy, Samuel Weston (University of Waikato, 2013)

  In Britain’s long-nineteenth century (1789-1914), religious explanations of the world were challenged with the rise of science, leading to the question of how religion survived. Both fiction and non-fiction explored this ...

  

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