6 Nov 2013

New research on NZ's second governor, Robert Fitzroy

From Nine To Noon, 9:32 am on 6 November 2013

Hamish Spencer from Otago University on new research on NZ's second governor, Robert Fitzroy, who is best known as the captain of the HMS Beagle - the survey ship which carried Charles Darwin on his five-year circumnavigation of the globe. Darwin scholars have painted him as a supporter of slavery.