Benjamin Kingsbury

Guest writer

The Quail Island colony in 1911, showing huts for leprosy patients among the trees. (Auckland Libraries Heritage collections, AWNS-19111026-16-2)

The cruelty – and small kindnesses – of quarantine 100 years ago

Remembering New Zealand's leprosy colony and the men confined there.

By Benjamin Kingsbury | 5th May, 2020

The Quail Island colony in 1911, showing huts for leprosy patients among the trees. (Auckland Libraries Heritage collections, AWNS-19111026-16-2)

He is unclean; he shall dwell alone: A sad and startling story of leprosy in NZ

An extract from Benjamin Kingsbury's The Dark Island, about the history of the leprosy patient colony on Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbour.

By Benjamin Kingsbury | 7th October, 2019