{"id":785,"date":"2014-12-18T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=785"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T01:28:13","slug":"dunedin-new-zealands-history-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/dunedin-new-zealands-history-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin: New Zealand&#8217;s history capital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Jock Phillips, an eminent historian\u00a0in both academic and public domains has just annointed Dunedin as the powerhouse of NZ historical research and scholarship. \u00a0And this just days after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/325745\/city-literature-writes-new-chapter\" target=\"_blank\">Unesco named Dunedin\u00a0a Creative City of Literature<\/a>. \u00a0Jock, until recently the Ministry of Culture and Heritage&#8217;s General Editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teara.govt.nz\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand<\/a> has suggested in his latest blogpost that &#8220;New Zealand history moves south&#8221;, citing examples of the academic strength of\u00a0historians at the University of Otago, its public institutions, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toituosm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toit\u016b: Otago Settlers Museum<\/a>, as well as\u00a0citizen-driven initiatives. \u00a0Whatever aspect of history turns you on, Jock suggests that &#8220;Dunedin in 2015 is the place to be&#8221;. <\/span><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nzhistoryjock.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/17\/new-zealand-history-moves-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read Jock&#8217;s blogpost.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141723\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jock Phillips, an eminent historian\u00a0in both academic and public domains has just annointed Dunedin as the powerhouse of NZ historical research and scholarship. \u00a0And this just days after Unesco named Dunedin\u00a0a Creative City of Literature. \u00a0Jock, until recently the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17472],"tags":[17474,8967,45139,39614],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-news","tag-crocc","tag-dunedin","tag-history","tag-jock-phillips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}