Jane Tolerton

Jane Tolerton is a Wellington historian who has often written about the First World War. Her latest book is Make Her Praises Heard Afar: the Hidden History of New Zealand in World War One (Booklovers Press, 2017). She set up the World War One Oral History Archive, with Nicholas Boyack, and interviewed 85 veterans, co-edited In the Shadow of War with Boyack (Penguin, 1990), and wrote An Awfully Big Adventure: New Zealand World War One veterans tell their stories from the interviews (Penguin, 2013). Among her other books are Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer, about Rout's war years (Penguin, 2015).