Dr Paul Moon ONZM is a professor of history at Auckland University of Technology, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of many books, including biographies of James Busby, William Hobson, Robert FitzRoy, and the Ngāpuhi rangatira Hōne Heke and Hōne Heke Ngāpua. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. Paul lives in Auckland. Photograph by Stefan Moon