Raewyn Mary Dalziel is a New Zealand historian specialising in New Zealand social history.

Career

Dalziel was

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(Academic) of the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn ...

from 1999 to 2009. She is an

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of history at the university. In 2013, she was appointed chair of

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring fr ...

's Research Advisory Panel. In 2014, Dalziel established the Ellen Castle Undergraduate Scholarship at the University of Auckland, in memory of her mother.

Honours and awards

In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dalziel was appointed an

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant (document), royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Monarchy of New Zealand, Queen of New Zealand, "for those ...

, for services to education.

Personal life

In 1976, Dalziel married fellow historian

Keith Sinclair Sir Keith Sinclair (5 December 1922 – 20 June 1993) was a New Zealand poet and historian. Academic career Sinclair was the oldest child of Ernest Duncan Sinclair and Florence Pyrenes Kennedy. Born and raised in Auckland, Sinclair was a stu ...

Selected publications

Books

*Dalziel, R. (1968). ''Sir Julius Vogel''. Wellington: Reed. *Dalziel, R. (1975). ''The origins of New Zealand diplomacy: The Agent-General in London, 1870–1905''. Wellington: Price Milburn for Victoria University Press. *Sinclair, K., & Dalziel, R. (2000). ''A history of New Zealand''. Auckland. Penguin.

Articles

* Dalziel, R. (1 January 1977). The colonial helpmeet: Women's role and the vote in nineteenth-century New Zealand. ''New Zealand Journal of History,'' 112–122. *Dalziel, R. (1 January 1994). Review article on publications marking the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand. ''Australian Feminist Studies,'' 19, 191–197. *Dalziel, R. (18 December 2014). A Blighted Fame: George S. Evans 1802–1868, A Life. ''The Journal of New Zealand Studies,'' 18. *Dalziel, R. (1 January 2017). The Privileged Crime: Policing and Prosecuting Bigamy in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand. ''New Zealand Journal of History, 51,'' 2, 1–25. *Dalziel, R. (1986). Education was the key. In Clark, Margaret (ed). ''Beyond Expectations: fourteen New Zealand women write about their lives.'' Allen & Unwin. p. 125–142.

References

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