The Forgotten Prophet: Tāmati Te Ito and His Kaingārara Movement

Rowan Light is a historian and lecturer at Waipapa Taumata Rau The 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, was published in 2023 as part of the Bridget Williams Books Texts series.