Michael BelgraveMichael Belgrave

Michael Belgrave is a professor of history at Massey University. He is the author of Dancing with the King (AUP, 2018) and Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories (AUP, 2005) and co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground: Where We Are Headed, and Why It Matters (Massey University Press, 2017). He was previously research manager of the Waitangi Tribunal.

The Monday Extract: Tāwhiao, the second Māori King, goes to London to see the Queen

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For 20 years, the second Māori King, Tāwhiao, governed Rohe Pōtae (the King Country) as an independent state. Tāwhiao also sailed to London in an attempt to see the Queen; the mission is described in this extract from a new study of that 20-year reign. Going to London to see the Queen was a rare … Read more