Chronicling a forgotten coast

While the Ministry of Education works on a new curriculum to teach Aotearoa's history in schools, the fight is on for what that taught history should be. Dr Richard Shaw is a Professor of Politics at Massey University and has been grappling with the legacy of his family in a short memoir titled The Forgotten Coast. It's a memoir of his own life, but also an investigation into how his families ended up where they did, with what they had. It's a story that tracks from Parihaka to Palmerston North and Richard joins Kathryn to talk about negotiating pakeha identity and understanding the histories that inform our present.