An archivist by day and an author by night, Jared Davidson is an award-winning writer based in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. His books include the acclaimed Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920 (Otago University Press, 2019), The History of a Riot (BWB Texts, 2021), and his latest, Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2023). Through history from below, Jared explores the lives of people often overlooked by traditional histories – from working-class radicals of the early twentieth century to convicts of the nineteenth. He is currently the Research Librarian Manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

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