Jared Davidson
Jared Davidson: how prison labour built New Zealand
Some of New Zealand's most important roads, buildings, botanic gardens and great walks were constructed by forced labour, in an era where idleness and waste was deemed more criminal then crime… Audio
Jared Davidson: Subversion and censorship in NZ
Privacy issues aren't just a feature of the digital age; a new book by labour historian, Jared Davidson, hows how pervasive military censorship was in the wartime years from 1914 to 1920. Dead… Audio
THE WORD - Dead Letters
If we are tempted to think of threats to privacy as solely problems of the digital age, we should think again. Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920 is a startling reminder… Audio
Domestic Postal Censorship in WW1
Researcher Jared Davidson talks about censorship and surveillance of mail within New Zealand during the Great War. Audio, Gallery
Wobblies Down Under
The Swedish-American radical socialist, songster and poet Joe Hill, became a martyr for the working classes world-wide when he was executed in 1915 for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. His… Audio