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      • Ballance, John 1839-1893: Newspaper proprietor and editor, politician, premier
      • James Cook (1728-1799): British Navigator and Explorer
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      • William Hobson (1793-1842): First Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, 1840-1842
      • Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842): Explorer of the South Pacific and Antarctica
      • Daniel Solander (1733-1782): The Botanist and Nature´s Argonaut
  • Materials
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      • Auckland. A Day In The Life: September 1907
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• History
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    • The Moriori, Ancestors of the Maori
    • Early Times. The Local People
    • Earthen Fortification Sites pa: an Aerial View
  • 16th Century
    • The Polynesians -- Discovery of New Zealand
  • 17th Century
    • Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages, by James Backhouse Walker
    • The Voyages (1642, 1644) of Abel Tasman
    • Imagined Landscapes. The Tasman Map Reconfigured
  • 18th Century
    • James Cook (1728-1799): British Navigator and Explorer
    • Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771
    • Cook's Journal of the Endeavour voyage, 1768-1771 [Digitised manuscript: National Library of Australia]
    • The Replica of the Endeavour
    • The papers of Sir Joseph Banks including journal of a voyage on HMS Endeavour, August 1768-July 1771.
    • Daniel Solander (1733-1782): The Botanist and Nature´s Argonaut
    • 1793. The Whaling Industry Established in New Zealand.
  • 19th Century
    • 1809. The Massacre of the Passengers and Crew of the Boyd
    • Exploration and Settlement
    • The Musket Wars 1818-1833 [warfare between Maori tribes using muskets introduced by European traders]
    • 1817-1818 The Whakapapa Tribal Wars
    • Notices of New Zealand [from the Colonial Office April 1832]
    • 28 October 1835. Tribal Federation's Declation of Independence
    • Instructions to Captain Hobson concerning his duty as Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand: 1839
    • The First Immigrant Ships. 1839
    • William Hobson (1793-1842): First Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, 1840-1842
    • The trail of Waitangi, by Gary Williams [events leading to the Treaty of Waitangi.]
    • The Treaty of Waitangi 1840
    • Settlers, Annexation, and the Creation of a Colony
    • Wanganui and the River Boats. 1840- [establishment of the towwn and development of shipping]
    • Henderson and MacFarlane's Circular Saw Line. Est. 1845 [development of a shipping line from its establishment]
    • The New Zealand Wars/The Maori Wars
      • Research Tools
        • Bibliography
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        • New Zealand Military Historical Society
        • New Zealand Defence Forces 1860-1883
      • Overviews
        • 1st Anglo-Maori War 1845-1847
        • 2nd and 3rd Anglo-Maori War 1860-1866
        • The New Zealand Wars
        • The New Zealand Wars 1845-1872
        • The Maori Wars [Click on European and, in order, The Land Wars 1, The Land Wars 2, The Land Wars 3, The Land Wars 4. Provides an excellent illustrated account]
      • The Wars
        • The First New Zealand War 1845-1847
          • Hone Heke's War [also called The Northern War and the First Maori War]
          • 1846 War Parties in the Hutt
        • The Second New Zealand War 1860-1864
          • Australian naval involvement in the Maori Wars 1860-1864 [see under heading 'Maori Wars']
          • 1860. The Battle of Puketakauere
          • The First Significant Overseas War: Australians leave for the Waikato War in New Zealand (1863), by Scott Davidson, from The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
          • The Battle of Rangiriri. 20-21 November 1863. The application of artillery in the New Zealand Land Wars [a detail account]
          • The Battle of Gate Pa, May 1864
        • The Third New Zealand War 1866-1872
          • The New Zealand Army List 1866
          • Trevor Chute [known for his conquest of Taranaki, January 1966]
    • The Pioneer Women of New Zealand. Life of the Women Folk
    • Cobb and Co. Stagecoach, est. 1854
    • Gold Strike! Prospecting for Gold in the 1860's
    • New Zealand Defence Forces 1860 - 1883
    • The New Zealand Wars 1845-1872
    • The Fencibles
    • Legislative Violations of the Treaty of Waitangi: The first 150 years
    • The New Zealand Natives' Rugby Tour of 1888/89
    • Labour Day 1890 [a partial explanation of New Zealand's excellent relations between labor and management]
    • Suffragists. Biographies of Women Who Worked for the Vote - 1893
    • The National Council of the Women of New Zealand, 1896-1920, by Roberta Nicholls
  • 20th Century
    • General
      • Images of Food and Drink in Twentieth-Century New Zealand
      • Selected Ilustrations from Living in the Twentieth Century. New Zealand History in Photographs, 1900-1980, by Bronwyn Dalley
      • New Zealand's Participation in the South African ('Boer') War 1899-1902
      • "Cruises of the New Zealand Government Steamer Hinemoa, 1906". being the diary of William Edward Sanders [details a year spent servicing and supplying lighthouses]
      • 12 November 1912: "Black Tuesday" -The Miners' Strike at Waihi
    • The First World War 1914-1918
      • The Gallipoli Campaign
      • A Turkish Account of the Gallipoli Campaign
      • Australia and New Zealand in France during World War I
      • History of the Royal Navy's "Q" Ships [includes memorialization of William Sanders (1883-1917)
      • New Zealanders in World War I
      • Memorials Register
      • War Memorials
      • War Reference Guide Records of armed forces from the 1840s to the 1970s
    • Between the Wars
      • Art Deco Napier 1931 [photo gallery of town rebuilt in 1931, totally in art deco style]
      • "The Daily Grind": Wellington Cafe Culture, 1920-2000
      • The Young and the Restless: Children and Adolescents in New Zealand 1930-–196
      • Protest and Dissent in the 1940s and 1950s
      • Population, Immigration and Citizenship, 1940-–1960
      • Sport in New Zealand 1940-–1960
      • New Zealand literature in the 1940s and 1950s
      • The School of Radiant Living in New Zealand, 1938-1983
      • New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939-1940
    • The Second World War, 1939-1945
      • Fighting for equality: The Maori War Effort Organisation 1942–1945
      • The Battle of Crete, May 1941
    • Postwar
      • Long Journey for Sevenpence. Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom 1947-1975
      • The Tangiwai Railway Disaster, 1953
      • 10 April 1968. The Day the Wahine Went Down
      • New Zealand Today [images of the islands]
• Topical
• Unsorted
  • Howick Historical Village [presents a living picture of life in a Fencible village during the early days of European settlement]
  • A Brief History of the Police
  • Capital Defense. The Built Military Heritage of Wellington
  • New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum
  • The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum
  • New Zealand Vietnam Veterans
  • A Brief History of Auckland City, written by Graham Bush
  • Avondale History Collection
  • Links to Local History Sites
  • Historic Tribes & Canoes [Link page for Maori canoes, tribal pages, tribal divisions, etc.]

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