Angela Wanhalla (Ngai Tahu, Ngai Te Ruahikihiki, Pakeha) is a professor in the History Programme, Otakou Whakaihu Waka. Her primary research area is Maori women's history. Her most recent book is Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Lachy Paterson is emeritus professor at Te Tumu, Otakou Whakaihu Waka, where he taught te reo Maori and Maori history. He researches Maori history, especially relating to newspapers and other texts in Maori, and the relationship between Maori and the government in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.