Hazel Riseborough was an historian, and the author of Days of Darkness: Taranaki 1878–1884 (1989, 2002, 2023), Ngamatea: The Land and the People (2006), and Shear Hard Work: A History of New Zealand Shearing (2010). She was one of the first women to qualify as a wool classer in New Zealand; later she graduated with advanced degrees in Māori studies and history, teaching for some years at Massey University. Later in life, she became active in conservation.
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