“A Bloody Difficult Subject”: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History.

Rowan Light is a historian, Lecturer at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland and Project Curator (New Zealand Wars) at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. He researches histories of remembrance and commemoration, focusing on how communities respond to war and conflict and how this is shaped by institutions such as memorials and museums. His first book, Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965–2015, was published with Otago University Press in 2022. A follow-up publication, Why Memory Matters: “Remembered Histories” and the Politics of the Shared Past, is forthcoming in 2023 as part of the Bridget Williams Books Texts series.