Ian McGibbon
{{Short description|New Zealand historian}}
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Ian Callum McGibbon {{postnominals|country=NZL|ONZM}} (born 7 December 1947) is a New Zealand historian, specialising in military and political history of the 20th century. He has published several books on New Zealand participation in the First and Second World Wars.
Biography
Born on 7 December 1947 in Dannevirke, McGibbon was educated at Victoria University of Wellington. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1968, Honours the following year and in 1971, he graduated with a Master of Arts degree with distinction, majoring in history.{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://independent.academia.edu/IanMcGibbon/CurriculumVitae |website=Academia |access-date=5 November 2018}}
His career as a historian began with an appointment in 1971 as the Defence Historian at the Ministry of Defence, where he worked for eight years. In 1979, he started work for the Department of Internal Affairs in the Historical Publications Branch. From 1982, he was the only staff member dealing with military history and produced the official history of New Zealand's involvement in the Korean War.{{cite web |last1=McGibbon |first1=Ian |title='Something of Them Is Here Recorded': Official History in New Zealand |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-McGSome.html |website=New Zealand Electronic Text Centre |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004022958/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-McGSome.html |archive-date=2018-10-04 |url-status=live }} In 1994 he earned a Doctor of Letters, also from Victoria University. He later was General Editor (War History) at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.{{cite web |title=Ian McGibbon|url=https://www.penguin.co.nz/authors/ian-mcgibbon |website=Penguin Books |publisher=Penguin Books New Zealand |access-date=4 November 2018}} His primary areas of interest are New Zealand's diplomatic and military history, with particular focus on New Zealand's involvement in 20th-century warfare.
In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, McGibbon was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to historical research.{{cite web |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 1997 |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-1997 |date=2 June 1997 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=4 November 2018}} From 2010 to 2014, McGibbon was New Zealand's representative in the tri-nation Joint Historical and Archaeological Survey of the Anzac Battlefield, working alongside historians and archaeologists from Australia and Turkey; he was a co-editor of Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory, the resulting publication from the Cambridge University Press.{{cite news |title=New book reveals findings from Gallipoli archaeological survey |url=https://mch.govt.nz/new-book-reveals-findings-gallipoli-archaeological-survey |access-date=4 November 2018 |publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage |date=2 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202222953/https://mch.govt.nz/new-book-reveals-findings-gallipoli-archaeological-survey |archive-date=2018-02-02 |url-status=live }}
Since 1981 he has been managing editor of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs' journal New Zealand International Review.
Publications
McGibbon's publications include:{{cite web |title=Books by Ian McGibbon |url=https://www.wheelers.co.nz/browse/author/514508-ian-mcgibbon/?status=all |website=Wheelers |access-date=18 November 2018}}
Author
- Blue-Water Rationale: The Naval Defence of New Zealand 1914–1942 (1981)
- The Path To Gallipoli, Defending New Zealand 1840–1915 (1991)
- ''New Zealand and the Korean War
:: Volume I: Politics and Diplomacy (1992)
:: Volume II: Combat Operations (1996)
- The Western Front: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials (2001, revised edition 2015)
- Gallipoli: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials (2005, revised edition 2014)
- Kiwi Sappers: The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers' Century of Service (2002)
- A History of the Mangatoro Station and the Waitahora Valley (2006)
- New Zealand and the Second World War: The People, the Battles and the Legacy (2004)
- New Zealand's Vietnam War: A History of Combat, Commitment and Controversy (2011)
- New Zealand's Western Front Campaign (2016)
Editor
- Undiplomatic Dialogue: Letters Between Carl Berendsen and Alister McIntosh, 1943–52 (1994)
- Unofficial Channels: Letters between Alister Mcintosh and Foss Shanahan, George Laking and Frank Corner 1946–1966 (1999)
- Oxford Companion To New Zealand Military History (2000)
- One Flag, One Queen, One Tongue: New Zealand and the South African War (2003)
- New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War (2007)
- The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War (2009)
- Seeing Red, New Zealand, the Commonwealth and the Cold War, 1945–91 (2012)
- ANZAC Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (2016)
- Tutu te Puehu, New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars (2018)
- New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History (2022)
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Category:Historians of World War I
Category:Historians of World War II
Category:20th-century New Zealand historians
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:People from Dannevirke
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