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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So thrilled to have been featured on Drafting the Past. If you like hearing about *how* people write and organise their craft (as well as geek out on books), this is the podcast for you

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Zealand archivist and indie historian Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social joined Kate to talk about his punk ethos, writing around his day job, and how he finds evidence to write about the oppressed and overlooked in his home country, incl in his new book BLOOD & DIRT. buff.ly/k8zhJzw

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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A juicy new blog about the history and posters of Garage Collective (aka @anrchivist.bsky.social), including numerous music gig examples from the 2000s New Zealand scene, including A Low Hum. Some beautiful artwork here from the archive at the Turnbull Library. natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/g...

Camp A Low Hum 2008, designed by Austria-based illustrator Michael Hacker and screen-printed by Jared Davidson (Garage Collective). Ref: Eph-D-FESTIVAL-ALH-2008-01 Alexander Turnbull Library.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A month late, but the news is still sad. And considering LA right now, 'Riot. Strike. Riot' remains crucial reading. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)

How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I've begun researching a new book, 'Farms Aflame: The Secret History of Rural Arson' (working title). Still very much at the gathering archives phase, but I can already see this is going to be interesting mahi! #envhist #radicalhistory

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People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz · 18/02/2025

Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet. PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Some pics from a recent research visit to Ōamaru, where I visited the Waitaki Archives as well as some historic estates (Totara, Windsor Park)

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The closure of The Desert Road (SH1) will see people diverted onto highways first made by prisoners - SH4, 46, 47 and 48. I've written about these highways and work that went into their making here: garagecollective.blogspot.com/2024/11/heav...

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Heavy metal: Forced labour, commodity frontiers and highways through Aotearoa’s central plateau

Read or download a PDF version of this paper at Scribd , Academia or Issuu . Tongariro National Park, located in the central plateau of Aot...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hey team. What is the technical term for this way of laying out a chapter's content? You see it in lots of 19th and early 20th century work...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/01/2025

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Back at work and reading (and very much enjoying) 'Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class'. I love how Kelley weaves her own family story into the many lives she shares in the book wwnorton.com/books/978163...

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Black Folk

Named one of Smithsonian's Best Books of 20232024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award2024 Philip Taft Labor History Award  2024 Brooklyn Public Library Book Pr...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I read some great historical fiction this year. These were my favourites

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Also, very happy to announce that I've received a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant for my next book, 'Farms Aflame: The Secret History of Stack Burning'. Turns out incendiarism in the NZ countryside was a thing... Congrats to the other recipients! #envhist #radicalhistory #labourhistory

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Whiria Te Mahara funding awarded to histories of society and creative legacies | Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture & Heritage

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Made my submission opposing the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill. Nothing flash but sharing in case there's something of use to people. You can oppose the Bill here: www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

'It is not often that a book can challenge the way you see the world around you. Jared Davidson’s Blood and Dirt does precisely this... Davidson effortlessly outlines how fundamentally the historical toil of incarcerated workers shapes NZs contemporary economy and relations of power.' 😍📕🔥

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Project MUSE - Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson (review)

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Nice to get a mention in this round-up of reads. Thanks @brannavan.bsky.social (and cool to learn about your reading process as well) www.anzliterature.com/feature/i-be...

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'I became obsessed' – Academy of New Zealand Literature

Writers on the books that shaped their year.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Some snaps from this week: Ōnuku, Takapūneke, and the Coronation Library, Akaroa. Ngāi Tahu and colonial history.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The govt can afford 3 billion for landlord tax cuts. The *entire Marsden fund* is 78 mil or so. & Soc sciences & humanities were only ever a fraction of that. The govt implicitly saying it can't afford it is not credible. They just don't want critic & conscience work from academics.

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In the most direct statement yet that NZ's hard right government is totally opposed to any research that might challenge the social order they support, they have stripped the Humanities & Social Science panels from the largest fund for innovative research in the country.

Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and contributes to science with a purpose.
“The Government has been clear in its mandate to rebuild our economy. We are focused on a system that supports growth, and a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs,” Ms Collins says
“I have updated the Marsden Fund Investment Plan and Terms of Reference to ensure that future funding is going to science that helps to meet this goal.”
The new Investment Plan focuses on supporting research that can be of economic, environmental or health benefit to New Zealand. The new Terms of Reference outline that approximately 50 per cent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic benefits to New Zealand.
“The Marsden Fund will continue to support blue-skies research, the type that advances new ideas and encourages innovation and creativity and where the benefit may not be immediately apparent. It is important that we support new ideas which lead to developing new technologies and products, boosting economic growth, and enhancing New Zealand's quality of life,” Ms Collins says.
“The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

'Maíllo says that, to his knowledge, no case such as this has been successful but Busquets, a lifelong anarcho-syndicalist, is not deterred. “It’s not about the money,” he said. “It’s about justice. This country hasn’t made reparations to the victims.' www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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‘It’s about justice’: fighter from guerrilla war sues Spanish government for €1m

Joan Busquets, 96, suffered torture, forced labour and 20 years in prison under the Franco regime and seeks reparations

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Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Can't tell you how exciting I am to see this in print, having seen some of the work that's gone into it. Believe me when I say @maryhicks.bsky.social's first book is going to be a fantastic contribution to #AtlanticWorld, #AfricanHistory, and #AfricanDiaspora #history. #BlackHistory

Cover of Mary E. Hick's new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery.

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Writing tip no. 7: in my view, the essential unit of good writing is the paragraph. If you're stuck, spinning your wheels, write one strong paragraph, just one, about whatever topic you are on. In my experience, this breaks the logjam and allows thoughts to flow onto the page.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/11/2024

While the lower back tattoo or the barbed wire on the bicep may feel like recent trends, women have been getting inked for centuries. From initials to butterflies, Nastasha Sartore explores Victorian women's tattoo choices. ✊🗃️ www.historyworkshop....

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Victorian Women's Tattoos

From initials to butterflies, Nastasha Sartore explores Victorian women's tattoo choices.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

For those interested in learning more about 'history from below', this was something I wrote back in 2019 for History Workshop @historywo.bsky.social. With thanks to Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social and others writing from the bottom up! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...

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History from below: a reading list with Marcus Rediker

Jared Davidson introduces Marcus Rediker's carefully curated list of essential readings to develop a history from below.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If I had time I'd love to write a maritime history research guide for the Turnbull. Would def include this neat logbook of the New Bedford whaling ship 'South Carolina'. Doodles! Ref: qMS-1855 #MaritimeHistory

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Not sure if it's the times but I've been listening to a heap of sludge (and doom) lately. Fav albums so far: - Grief, 'Come to Grief' - Noothgrush, 'Erode the Person' - Body Void, 'Ruins' youtu.be/M09hXbzXW5I?...

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Grief - Come To Grief (Full Album) 1994 HQ

YouTube video by Samuel Rojas

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

They're selling cherries roadside. Summer has officially begun in the Hutt* *Hutt summer optional

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New review! 'Blood & Dirt has done much to place the sweated toil of NZs exploited prison labour force front & centre. It has also provided a framework for rethinking the rise of the prison...this is a terrific & important book' #pukapuka #envhist www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's nice to see reviews of Blood and Dirt still popping up! "Throughout the book, he skilfully weaves personal stories through the facts and figures, and his punchy, confident writing style deftly handles weighty methodological topics." #envhist www.thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.ph...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

'in his acceptance speech, Flanagan said he would not accept the £50,000 prize money until the fund manager shares a plan to reduce its investment in fossil fuel extraction and increase investments in renewables.' www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

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Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize but rejects £50,000 over fossil fuels

Australian author says he will not accept prize money until fund manager reduces its fossil fuel investments

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

'Proclamations of sovereignty were a legal fiction, for they ignored some crucial caveats: those who signed Te Tiriti signed a Māori-language document that never ceded sovereignty, and in tikanga Māori, ceding sovereignty was impossible.' #ToitūTeTiriti garagecollective.blogspot.com/2021/01/arch...

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Archive Stories, Archive Realities

Below is my chapter for Public Knowledge , first published by Freerange Press in December 2019. You can purchase the book from the Freerang...

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I used a video editor to analyse the video + estimated the size of the space using google maps Based on that, the lower bound of the number of people in the video is about 83,000 people. Plus the 4,000 already at Parliament house (according to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social) that makes 87,000 people.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This was before the hīkoi had even arrived at Parliament. Amazing turn out

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Wellington train station packed, full trains, lots of whanau and flags. It's amazing. Toitu Te Tiriti!

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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Australian Historical Association is now on Bluesky! We'll be sharing information about the latest developments, news, and events relevant to the discipline of history in Australia -- give us a follow!

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Info for tomorrow's hīkoi in Te Whanganui-a-Tara for anyone who wants it

Maps showing hīkoi route and facilities at Waitangi Park on Tuesday

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Carwyn Jones @ahikaroa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I put together another primer to help people understand and talk about the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill www.metuauru.co.nz/wp-content/u... #nzpol

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

When you're working on two books (because who can decide?) you need a serious writing desk... Like this. Sore neck included.

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky resources for Library people! 📚 The Library & Archives on list has grown exponentially over the last week: useful if you'd like to see examples of how institutions are settling in on here (perhaps with a view to setting up your own org on Bluesky). bsky.app/profile/did:... More below 🧵⤵️

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Greetings, fellow deserters! We are part of an honorable tradition.

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky feels like coming home on a summer evening and seeing all your friends hooning around the block on BMXs

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sharing my latest research here for those interested. 'Heavy metal: Forced labour, commodity frontiers and highways through Aotearoa’s central plateau' explores capitalism, ecology and infrastructure. It's free to read online or download a PDF: garagecollective.blogspot.com/2024/11/heav...

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Heavy metal: Forced labour, commodity frontiers and highways through Aotearoa’s central plateau

Read or download a PDF version of this paper at Scribd , Academia or Issuu . Tongariro National Park, located in the central plateau of Aot...

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Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Was hoping to reduce my social media use. Oh well...

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