Publications
THESIS
‘Rūnanga and Komiti: Māori Institutions of Self-Government in the Nineteenth Century’, New Zealand Studies PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004
MONOGRAPHS
The Māori Quest for Rangatiratanga/Autonomy, 1840-2000 (with Richard Hill), Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand History (with Bryan Gilling), Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
Indigenous Land Rights in an International Context: A Survey of the Literature relating to Australia, New Zealand and North America, Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000
CHAPTERS AND BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
‘He Tino Pakanga Nui No Niu Tireni: The “Great War for New Zealand” in Memory and History’, in Malcolm Mulholland (ed.), Te Pūtake o te Riri: The New Zealand Wars, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, 2018, pp.51-83
‘Remembrance, Denial and the New Zealand Wars: The Road to Rā Maumahara’ (with Joanna Kidman), in Malcolm Mulholland (ed.), Te Pūtake o te Riri: The New Zealand Wars, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, 2018, pp.137-161
‘Assembling a Case for Invasion: The Outbreak of the Waikato War’, in John Crawford and Ian McGibbon (eds), Tutu Te Puehu: New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars, Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2018, pp.168-193
‘Introduction’, in He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence 1835, Archives New Zealand/National Library of New Zealand/Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2017, pp.8-14
‘Uncle Toms and Kupapas: “Collaboration” versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Context’, in Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt Stuchtey (eds), Cooperation and Empire: Local Realities of Global Processes, Berghahn Books, New York, 2017, pp.144-168
‘“The Natives Here Rule” Northland After 1846’, in Richard S. Hill and Brad Patterson (eds), After the Treaty: The Colonial State, Race Relations and the Exercise of Military Force in Nineteenth Century New Zealand, Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2016, pp.205-227
‘Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand’s Māori King Movement and its Relationship with the British Monarchy’, in Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery (eds), Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016, pp.163-176
'The Coming of the Pākehā, 1820-1840' (with Judith Binney and Alan Ward), in Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014, pp.190-217
'Rangatiratanga and Kawanatanga, 1840-1860' (with Judith Binney and Alan Ward), in Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014, pp.220-253
'Wars and Survival, 1860-1872' (with Judith Binney and Alan Ward), in Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014, pp.256-283
'The Land and the People, 1860-1890' (with Judith Binney and Alan Ward), in Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014, pp.286-315
'The Quest for Survival, 1890-1920' (with Judith Binney), in Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014, pp.318-349
‘Prophetic Leaders among the Māori’, in Alfred J. Andrea (ed.), World History Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2011, Vol. 16, pp. 892-894
‘“A Mild Sort of Confiscation”? War and Raupatu on the East Coast’, in Richard Boast and Richard S. Hill (eds), Raupatu: The Confiscation of Māori Land, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2009, pp. 207-221
‘Māori Indigenous Resistance’, in Immanuel Ness (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, Oxford, 2009, pp. 2205-2209
‘Unsettling New Zealand History: The Revisionism of Sinclair and Ward’, in Doug Munro and Brij V. Lal (eds), Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2006, pp. 154-165
‘Treaty-making in Early Colonial New Zealand’, in Judith Binney (ed.), The Making of History: Essays from the New Zealand Journal of History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2001, pp. 129-145
‘Der Vertrag von Waitangi in der Neuseelandischen Geschichte’ (with Bryan Gilling), Māori und Gesellschaft, MANA-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, pp. 35-54
‘Das Streben der Māori nach Rangatiratanga (Autonomie)’ (with Richard Hill), Māori und Gesellschaft, MANA-Verlag, Berlin, 2000, pp. 55-76
‘Carr, Harold Herbert (1880-1973)’, Ngā Tangata Taumata Rau, 1941-1960, Auckland University Press/Te Tari Taiwhenua, Akarana/Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2000, pp. 33-34
‘Carr, Harold Herbert (1880-1973)’, The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume Five, 1940-1960, Auckland University Press/Department of Internal Affairs, Auckland/Wellington, 2000, pp. 94-95
‘Street Talk: History, Myth and Memory on the Waikato Frontier, New Zealand Journal of Public History, Vol 7, No, 1, 2020, pp.13-19,
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/527975/NZJPH.03-Vincent-OMalley-NZJPH7.pdf
Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley, ‘Questioning the Canon: Colonial History, Counter-memory and Youth Activism’, Memory Studies, 2018 (Published online 2 January 2018), https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698017749980
Vincent O’Malley and Joanna Kidman, ‘Settler Colonial History, Commemoration and White Backlash: Remembering the New Zealand Wars’, Settler Colonial Studies, Vol.8, No.3, 2018, pp.298-313, (Published online 22 January 2017),
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2201473X.2017.1279831
‘A Tale of Two Rangatira: Rewi Maniapoto, Wiremu Tamihana and the Waikato War’, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol.125, No.4, 2016, pp. 341-357
‘The Great Forgetting: The New Zealand Wars in National Memory’, History Teacher Aotearoa, Vol.1, No.3, 2016, pp.5-7
‘Māori Rules of War at Gate Pa’, Wars, Laws and Humanity: New Zealand’s Engagement with International Humanitarian Law, New Zealand Red Cross, Wellington, 2015, pp.4-5
‘“Recording the
Incident with a Monument”: The Waikato War in Historical Memory’, Journal of New Zealand
Studies, no.19, 2015, pp.79-97
https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/3767/3385
'The Tuhoe-Crown Settlement: Historical Background', Māori Law Review, October 2014, pp.3-7
‘Choosing Peace
or War: The 1863 Invasion of Waikato’, New Zealand Journal of History,
Vol.47, No.1, 2013, pp. 39-58
http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/document.php?wid=1954&action=null
‘Manufacturing Chiefly Consent? James Busby and the Role of Rangatira in the Pre-Colonial Era’, Journal of New Zealand Studies, No.10, 2011, pp. 33-43
https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/152/937
‘Frontier Justice? The Trial and Execution of Kereopa Te Rau’, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol.120, No.2, 2011, pp. 183-191
‘“A Living Thing”: The Whakakotahitanga Flagstaff and its Place in New Zealand History’, Journal of New Zealand Studies, No.8, 2009, pp. 41-60
https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/4
‘Reinventing Tribal Mechanisms of Governance: The Emergence of Māori Rūnanga and Komiti in New Zealand Before 1900’, Ethnohistory, Vol.56, No.1, 2009, pp. 69-89
‘A United Front Against Capitalism? Unemployed Workers’ Organisations in Christchurch, New Zealand, During the Depression’, Labour History Review, Vol.73, No.1, 2008, pp. 145-166
‘The East Coast Petroleum Wars: Raupatu and the Politics of Oil in 1860s New Zealand’, New Zealand Journal of History, Vol.42, No.1, 2008, pp. 60-79
http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/document.php?wid=1712&action=null
‘English Law and
the Māori Response: A Case Study from the Rūnanga System in Northland, 1861-65’,
Journal of
the Polynesian Society, Vol.116, No.1, 2007, pp. 7-33
‘Treaty-Making in
Early Colonial New Zealand’, New Zealand
Journal of History, Vol.33, No.2, 1999, pp. 137-154 http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/document.php?wid=520&action=null
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
‘The Incident in Rangiaowhia’, Newsroom, 21 February 2024, https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/21/the-incident-in-rangiaowhia/
‘Time in the sun: After decades of snubs and stonewalling, Britain’s monarch finally visits Tūrangawaewae’, New Zealand Geographic. Issue 183, September-October 2023, https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/time-in-the-sun/
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/shades-of-grey/
‘“A perfect pack of devils”: How a town called Maxwell got—and lost—its name’, New Zealand Geographic, Issue 180, March-April 2023,
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-perfect-pack-of-devils/
'Remembering our past, warts and all, is not about making New Zealanders feel guilty', The Guardian, 25 April 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/remembering-our-past-warts-and-all-is-not-about-making-new-zealanders-feel-guilty
‘Voices from the New Zealand Wars: The Invasion of Parihaka’, Newsroom, 29 December 2021,
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/voices-from-the-new-zealand-wars-the-invasion-of-parihaka
'Remembering Raupatu: A Forgotten Anniversary’, The Spinoff, 3 December 2021, https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-12-2021/remembering-raupatu-a-forgotten-anniversary
‘A Survivor’s Account of the Torching of Rangiaowhia’, E-Tangata, 28 November 2021,
https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/a-survivors-account-of-the-torching-of-rangiaowhia/
Signs are encouraging for a historically aware Aotearoa’, Stuff,
18 November 2021, https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300456857/signs-are-encouraging-for-a-historically-aware-aotearoa
‘New Zealand’s children will all soon study the country’s brutal history – it’s not before time’, The Guardian, 2 November 2021,https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/new-zealands-children-will-all-soon-study-the-countrys-brutal-history-its-not-before-time
‘Vincent O’Malley on the slashing of public reading hours at Archives NZ’, The Spinoff, 5 February 2020, https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-02-2020/vincent-omalley-on-the-slashing-of-public-reading-hours-at-archives-nz/
‘Ensuring future generations understand our past’, Education Gazette, 24 October 2019,
https://gazette.education.govt.nz/articles/ensuring-future-generations-understand-our-past/
‘Our Trail of Tears: The Story of Ihumātao’, The Spinoff, 27 July 2019, https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/27-07-2019/our-trail-of-tears-the-story-of-how-ihumatao-was-stolen/
‘Waitangi Week: The War in Tauranga, Which Pretends History Never Happened There’, The Spinoff, 5 February 2019, https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-02-2019/waitangi-week-the-war-in-tauranga-which-pretends-history-never-happened-there/
‘A Dark Tale of Dispossession and Greed’, E-Tangata, 9 December 2018, https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/a-dark-tale-of-dispossession-and-greed/
‘Teaching the New Zealand Wars’ (with Joanna Kidman), PPTA News, 27 November 2018, https://www.ppta.org.nz/news-and-media/opinion-teaching-the-new-zealand-wars/
‘The New Zealand Wars and the School Curriculum’ (with Joanna Kidman), Briefing Papers, 30 October 2018, http://briefingpapers.co.nz/the-new-zealand-wars-and-the-school-curriculum/
‘A mature nation owns its history – the good and the bad’, Stuff, 6 August 2018, https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106043529/a-mature-nation-owns-its-history--the-good-and-the-bad
‘Learning (and not learning) about the New Zealand Wars’, The Spinoff, 11 June 2018, https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/11-06-2018/learning-and-not-learning-about-the-new-zealand-wars/
‘Without He Whakaputanga, There Might Have Been No Treaty of Waitangi’, E-Tangata, 4 February 2018, https://e-tangata.co.nz/news/without-he-whakaputanga-there-might-have-been-no-treaty
‘Remembering the Northern War’, Radio New Zealand, 26 October 2017, http://www.radionz.co.nz/programmes/nz-wars/story/2018619137/remembering-the-northern-war
‘Inglorious Dastards: Rangiaowhia Raid and the ‘Great War for New Zealand’, New Zealand Listener, 25 February 2017, pp.25-30,
‘The Great War for New Zealand Broke Out Less than 50 Kilometres from Queen Street: Vincent O’Malley on the Waikato War and the Making of Auckland’, The Spinoff, 6 December 2016, http://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-12-2016/the-great-war-for-nz-broke-out-less-than-50-km-from-queen-st-vincent-omalley-on-the-waikato-war-and-the-making-of-auckland/
‘New Zealand Wars have not been well studied’, New Zealand Herald, 11 November 2016,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11745846
‘What a nation chooses to remember and forget: The war for New Zealand’s history’, The Guardian, 18 October 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/18/what-a-nation-chooses-to-remember-and-forget-the-war-for-new-zealands-history
‘Historical amnesia over New Zealand’s own wars’, The Dominion Post, 23 April 2015,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/67944795/Historical-amnesia-over-New-Zealands-own-wars
DOCUMENTARY APPEARANCES
Kiingitanga: The Untold Story, 2017
NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka, 2017
NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka (extended interview), 2017
NZ Wars: Stories of Waitara, 2019
NZ Wars: Stories of Waitara (extended interview) 2019
NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui, 2021
NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui (extended interview), 2021
NZ Wars: Stories of Wairau, 2023
NZ Wars: Stories of Wairau (extended interview), 2023
NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana, 2024
