Lyndon Fraser is an associate professor of history at the University of Canterbury and a research fellow at the Canterbury Museum. His recent publications include A Distant Shore: Irish migration and New Zealand settlement(OUP, 2000); Castles of Gold: A history of the West Coast Irish(OUP, 2007), which won the J.W. Sherrard Award for New Zealand Regional and Local History; and Far from Home: The English in New Zealand(OUP, 2012), co-edited with Angela McCarthy.
