Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

Lucy Mackintosh is a senior research fellow, and formerly curator of war and social history, at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. Over the last 25 years, she has researched and written extensively on history, heritage and material culture in Auckland, New Zealand, and around the world, including publishing work on taonga (cultural treasures) acquired by American traders visiting the Pacific in the nineteenth century. She recently published the multi-award-winning book Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Bridget Williams Books, 2021). Over the last year, she has been drawing on Auckland Museum collections to create digital resources that explore the long and varied histories of Auckland to help schools and kura (Māori-language schools) teach the newly introduced compulsory Aotearoa New Zealand history curriculum.