Dr Vincent O’Malley FRHistS FRSNZ is an award-winning and bestselling historian who has written and published extensively on the history of Māori and settler relations in New Zealand. His book Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (BWB, 2021) won New Zealand’s premier book award for non-fiction in 2022, and he received a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement that same year. In 2023, he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi’s Humanities Aronui Medal. Dr O’Malley is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and a founding partner of HistoryWorks, which specialises in Treaty of Waitangi research. His publications include:"Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand’s Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy." In Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empire, 163-176. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800–2000. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2016. The New Zealand Wars/Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2019. Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2021.

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