John Griffiths is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University. He is the author of Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities and several articles in internationally recognised journals, which examine urban and imperial citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His career has included a period acting as a tutor for the Workers Educational Association. He is currently working on a project Beyond Swinging London, which examines how far London life of the 1960s was replicated in the provincial context.
