Geoffrey W Rice

Geoffrey W. Rice is adjunct professor of history at the University of Canterbury, UK, where he taught for nearly 40 years until his recent retirement. He has written illustrated histories of Christchurch and Lyttelton, a biography of Sir Heaton Rhodes, and two books about crimes and scandals in 19th-century Christchurch. His account of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, Black November, was short-listed in the history section of the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Geoffrey W. Rice is adjunct professor of history at the University of Canterbury, UK, where he taught for nearly 40 years until his recent retirement. He has written illustrated histories of Christchurch and Lyttelton, a biography of Sir Heaton Rhodes, and two books about crimes and scandals in 19th-century Christchurch. His account of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, Black November, was short-listed in the history section of the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. See less