Introduction / Bronwyn Dalley and Bronwyn Labrum -- 1. Imagining Our Pasts: Writing Our Histories / Michael Reilly -- 2. Ma Pango Ma Whero Ka Oti: Unities and Fragments in Maori History / Danny Keenan -- 3. Surveying Space: Constructing the Colonial Landscape / Giselle Byrnes -- 4. Domesticating the Land: Colonial Women's Gardening / Katherine Raine -- 5. Body and Soul: Heroic Visions of Work in the Late Nineteenth Century / Margaret McClure -- 6. Textual Museums: Collection and Writing in History and Ethnology, 1900-1950 / Chris Hilliard -- 7. The Cultural Remains of Elsie Walker / Bronwyn Dalley -- 8. Opening the Wardrobe of History: Dress, Artefacts and Material Life of the 1940s and 1950s / Fiona McKergow -- 9. Persistent Needs and Expanding Desires: Pakeha Families and State Welfare in the Years of Prosperity / Bronwyn Labrum -- 10. Street-Level Chemistry: The Past in the Present at Historic Places / Gavin McLean
