24 Apr 2025

Historian Jock Phillips on War Memorials

From Nights, 10:17 pm on 24 April 2025

Jock Phillips is one of New Zealand’s leading historians. He was previously the country’s Chief Historian, and then General Editor of Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

Jock began working on war memorials in the 1980s and has been fascinated by the subject ever since.

On the eve of Anzac Day, he joins Emile Donovan.

The memorial to the imperial and colonial forces
in the Symonds Street Cemetery, Auckland

The memorial to the imperial and colonial forces in the Symonds Street Cemetery, Auckland Photo: Supplied / Jock Phillips & Chris Maclean