Keith Sinclair
New Zealand poet and historianWikipedia
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Sep 9, 2026
Pip HunterGUEST
And also, given the depth studies, it's really going to be hard to find the people to actually really focus in on.
Pip HunterGUEST
Keith Sinclair wrote a book, Halfway Across the Harbour, And his thesis in the book was that imagination was the most important skill anyone could bring to history.
Pip HunterGUEST
The nature of evidence is really pushed, which is great in this, and the nature of, let me think, evidence and narrative.
Pip HunterGUEST
Really pleased to see that.
Henry ReynoldsGUEST
So the first thing was to get books which actually talked about the Aborigines.
Henry ReynoldsGUEST
Now, I looked at much the same time of the, you know, the m- the leading textbook of New Zealand history, Keith Sinclair's History of New Zealand, both powerfully, you know, widely used.
Henry ReynoldsGUEST
Now, of course, [laughs] it was an utterly different story.
Henry ReynoldsGUEST
Something like a quarter of the book was about Māori New Zealand, and there were about three pages in the index.