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Article on the legacy of coloniser Captain Cook

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Media platform E-Tangata posts a link on X to an article by Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville, titled (Not quite) 250 ways to start an essay about Captain Cook. The article is based on an earlier article that she wrote for a history journal about the commemorations and Cook’s global colonial legacy. It has now been turned into this BWB Text: Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook.

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