Member Profile

First Name

Peter

Surname

Clayworth

PHANZA Joining Date

2007

Region

Wellington

Specialities

Maori history, labour, race relations, science, conservation

About Me

Currently working as a wruter for Te Ara the encyclopedia of New Zealand. Also working on a biography of early 20th cent labour activist Pat Hickey.

Learning te reo Maori. Formerly worked for Waitangi Tribunal and for DOC.

Studied history at University of Otago- BA hons, PhD. Thesis was on the history of the 'Moriori Myth' - the idea of a pre-Maori population in NZ.

Previously studied Zoology and Ecology at Canterbury and Auckland Univeristies.

Originally from Nelson, from a family of mechanics in Stoke.

I am a Pakeha of English, Anglo-Irish and Welsh descent.

History

Member for

4 years 51 weeks