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Ernest Rutherford and the birth of modern physics
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“Wright is a fantastic writer… in my opinion the best New Zealand historian writing today”
– ‘The Library’ 3 February 2015.
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The History of Hawke’s Bay – third edition
This third edition of Matthew Wright’s history of Hawke’s Bay is fully updated and for the first time available in full colour. Includes previously unseen colour photos.
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Matthew Wright’s latest feature article is the third in a series covering the politics behind Admiral Sir John Fisher’s battlecruisers. Published by the Navy General Board website.
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Fritz Logan, Timaru Herald
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A professional career
Matthew Wright is an internationally published and multi-award-winning New Zealand author He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College in London, and holds qualifications in music, anthropology and history. He studied post-graduate under Professor Peter Munz.
Wright has more than 40 years professional experience as an author and editor. His publications include 65 books and more than 650 academic papers, feature articles and literary reviews. His books have been used as university texts, notably his scholarly historiographical analysis of the Treaty of Waitangi and its social place in New Zealand.
Other highlights of Wright’s work include his mammoth one-volume history of New Zealand, which has been in print since 2004, and books covering the science and history of New Zealand’s earthquakes. Between 2019-2024 Wright was employed full time to write the definitive history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps. He has been primarily published by Penguin Random House, Oratia Books and Bateman Books.
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