Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand

Gail Romano is curator of war history at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and a historian and researcher interested in often-overlooked fringe experiences and the personal, social and economic legacies of Aotearoa New Zealand’s post-nineteenth-century conflict participation, including the relationship of the Auckland community to its war-related heritage. Gail works with the Museum’s diverse collection of war-related memorabilia and with war-related display. She has co-organised international, interinstitutional conferences and has spoken and written on the material culture of conflict. Most recently Gail was a member of the New Zealand Memorial Museum Trust’s development team realising the New Zealand Liberation Museum Te Arawhata in Le Quesnoy, France, which opened in October 2023.