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Matthew Wright

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New Zealand

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http://www.matthewwright.net

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Matthew Wright has qualifications in music, history and anthropology, among other fields, holds postgraduate degrees in history, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. He published his first short story in 1976 and since the early 1980s has worked extensively as a writer, professional historian, reviewer and journalist. His work includes more than 500 articles, academic papers and reviews, and over 50 books on topics from travel guides to biography, engineering, earthquakes, transport, military and social history. He has a particular interest in the sciences.

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	The New Zealand Wars: A Brief History 3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guns and Utu: A Short History of the Musket Wars 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waitangi: A Living Treaty 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Italian Odyssey: The Second New Zealand Division in Italy 1943–45 (New Zealand Military Series Book 6) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreadnoughts Unleashed: Collected musings on twentieth century naval battles and warship design 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old South : life and times in the nineteenth-century Mainland 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explaining Our Weird Universe, Book 1: Cool Stuff About Time, Black Holes and Quantum Magic 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battle for Crete: New Zealand's Near-Run Affair (New Zealand Military Series Book 4) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind Enemy Lines: Kiwi Freedom Fighters in WWII 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One evening I watched the sun set over Reefton after an unusually fine and bright winter's day. The chill fell like a blanket, and with it came the sharp tang of coal smoke, shovelled into a hundred fires — or more — in houses around the town. It was a smell to conjure with, carrying all the sense of days gone by: of times when hissing steam locomotives drew cargoes around New Zealand with enthusiastic verve, of times when great cylindrical gasometers dominated townscapes from Kaitaia to Bluff, of an age when glowing embers whispering in iron stoves kept the chill at bay.”
― Matthew Wright, Coal: The Rise and Fall of King Coal in New Zealand

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