{"id":519,"date":"2014-03-26T08:56:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:03:01","slug":"new-book-on-the-scots-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/new-book-on-the-scots-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"New book on the Scots in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the book, <em>Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand<\/em> was launched at the University Book Shop, Dunedin, written by Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking, and Jim McAloon, with Rebecca Lenihan and Tanja Bueltmann. \u00a0One of the authors, \u00a0Professor Tom Brooking, is also a member of our Centre. \u00a0The publication is one of \u00a0many outputs still emerging from Brad and Tom&#8217;s Marsden Grant awarded in 2004.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_520\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/03\/2014-03-25-19.19.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-520 \" alt=\"2014-03-25 19.19.18\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/03\/2014-03-25-19.19.18-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/03\/2014-03-25-19.19.18-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/03\/2014-03-25-19.19.18-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/03\/2014-03-25-19.19.18-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Patterson and Tom Brooking celebrating the launch of their new book, Unpacking the Kists. University Book Shop, 25 March 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There was a great turn out for the launch. \u00a0Distinguished guest included Michael Russell,\u00a0Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning in the Scottish Government; Vicki Treadell, British High Commissioner; and Dave Cull, Dunedin mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;unpacking the kists&#8221; refers to unpacking the many different items from the large boxes that the Scottish immigrants brought with them to the New World.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unpacking the Kists<\/em>\u00a0is being sold last night under a Otago University Press imprint. \u00a0It is also published by McGill-Queens University Press in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the book, Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand was launched at the University Book Shop, Dunedin, written by Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking, and Jim McAloon, with Rebecca Lenihan and Tanja Bueltmann. \u00a0One of the authors, \u00a0Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17454,165],"tags":[17534,17533],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-launch","category-publications","tag-new-zealand-scots","tag-scottish-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}