Lyndon Fraser teaches in the Department of History at the University of Canterbury. He is the author or editor of several books on migration history, most recently Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand's West Coast Irish (2007). In 2011, he was historian for One Land, an award-winning six-part series that sets three families in 1850s New Zealand.

Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, where she teaches. Her most recent book is Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (2011). With Catharine Colebourne, she has recently edited Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010 (2012)

1 The English Diaspora in New Zealand: New persectives Lyndon Fraser & Angela McCarthy 2 In Searchof the English and Englishness Stephen Constantine 3 'Everything is English': Expectations, experiences and impacts of English migrants to New Zealand, 1840-1970 Marjory Harper 4 'Burton Ale', London Porter and Kentish Hops: English custom and 19th-century New Zealand drinking culture Greg Ryan 5 Migration and Ethicity among English Migrants in New Zealand Asylums Angela McCarthy 6 Memory, Mourning and melancholy: English ways of death on the margins of empire Lyndon Fraser 7 Pakeha or English? Maori understandings of Englishness in the colonial period Lachlan Paterson 8 Arcadia Reinvented? Recounting the recent sentiments and experiences of English migrants to New Zealand David Pearson 9 The 'New Chum': Writings of the English diaspora in New Zealand, 1860-1914 Janet Wilson