About the Author

Dr Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Atiawa) is an historian, archivist, journalist and curator. She is the author of The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget (Huia, 2009), Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers (Scribe, 2013) and Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (Bridget Williams Books, 2018). Dr Buchanan's archival expertise has included roles such as Curator, Germaine Greer Archive, University of Melbourne Archives, and publications in scholarly journals including Te Pouhere Korero, The Journal of Social History and Archivaria. Her writing has been translated into Maori, Farsi and French and published across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.