If you want to get in touch, I would love to hear from you. Need a historian for a job? Would you like access to a paywalled article I’ve published? Do we have shared research interests? Anything and everything—please drop me a line through one of the methods below.
I am available for media enquiries and I accept commissions. My fields of expertise include, but are not limited to:
- Australian and New Zealand history, broadly defined
- railway history and policy, especially in New Zealand
- Tangiwai and Hyde railway disasters, and rail accidents more generally
- micro-parties in Australian politics
- New Zealand’s former provincial system of government
- colonial politics and government
- movements to create new colonies/states in Australia and New Zealand
- colonial and post-colonial genocide
- history of the Chatham Islands and Moriori, especially in the 19th century
- institutional amalgamation and reform in higher education
Dr André Brett 