They changed the stickers 💛

Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, historian and winner of the Ockhams 2026 BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction! @bayheritage.bsky.social #theockhams

Enjoy this page-by-page flickthrough of the epic Mr Ward’s Map book, a street-by-street look at Victorian Wellington, now the @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social Bookhub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction winner! Huge congrats @bayheritage.bsky.social #MasseyUniversityPress (designed by me!) #TheOckhams

My new book "Mr Ward's Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street" came out five weeks ago - it's been a blur ever since! It's been #1 best seller at Unity Books Wgtn in the five weeks leading up to Christmas, and in the Listener Top 100 best books of the year: bookhub.co.nz/p/mr-ward-s-...

When the book by historian Elizabeth Cox, Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture was published, there were only nine women listed in the Wikipedia category for New Zealand women architects – a number quite at odds with the more than 500 women named in the book.

Seemed like an appropriate message to take to Parliament.

As Aotearoa New Zealand gears up for its second COVID inquiry, it’s crucial everyone watches this clip. Yes, it was tough having closed borders & strict lockdowns, but I’m not sure if people fully understand the scale of devastation we avoided by acting as we did. Listen to this doctor explain.

A sobering letter to the editor in today’s NZ Herald. #kikorangi #covid19

Is this the grimmest classified ad you've ever seen? Advert from a woman living in 'slum street' in Wellington, in 1889. #wellington

Have you caught with the beautiful new concept of BookHub? It gives you access to the inventory of independent bookstores across NZ, and you can order your books from whichever one you want to support. Lovely. Support local bookshops! And it even has my book in it... tinyurl.com/39xehdb3