Victory by Max Lambert
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
The definitive account of the New Zealand air crews' heroic and often deadly role in the dramatic and dangerous invasion of Europe in 1944 to the fall of Berlin the folliwng year. 'Just another name, another place, another time for dying.' From hunting U-boats over the heaving waters of the cold Atlanti ...Show more
Working Lives, 1900s: A Photographic Essay by Eric Olssen
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identity and pride. Together with the so-called unskilled, who built the infrastructure for the new society, these workers laid the cultural and social foundations ...Show more
Hamilton's Jet: The Biography of an Icon by John Walsh
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Second hand. This is the story of an iconic New Zealand company. The first stirrings of the embryonic engineering enterprise that became CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd began 75 years ago on a high country sheep station at the foot of Mt Cook. At Irishman Creek Station the inventive Kiwi farmer, Bill Hamilto ...Show more
Hello Girls & Boys! A New Zealand Toy Story by David Veart
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A seriously fun New Zealand toy story! Toys are made for playing with, but they are also serious business, as this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys makes clear. In Hello Girls and Boys! David Veart digs through a few centuries of pocket knives and plasticine to take us deep into the chi ...Show more
The Mill is Kaiapoi (Handmade Histories) by Mary Kelleher
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: Handmade Histories
About the people of Kaiapoi before, during and after the wool years of New Zealand.
NZ Army Uniforms and Clothing by Barry O'Sullivan
$158.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This is a companion volume to our first book 'New Zealand Army Personal Equipment, 1910 -1945. In this book we have covered the uniforms and clothing that were worn by New Zealand soldiers in New Zealand and overseas between 1910 and 1945. Also included are some civilian clothing and auxiliary uniforms ...Show more
From Alba to Aotearoa - Profiling New Zealand's Scots migrants 1840-1920 by Rebecca Lenihan
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
Detailed analysis of the origin of NZ's Scots migrants. Scots made up nearly 20 percent of the immigrant population of New Zealand to 1920, yet until the past few years the exact origins of New Zealand’s Scots migrants have remained blurred. From Alba to Aotearoa establishes for the first time key char ...Show more
The Lives of Colonial Objects by Annabel Cooper
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Māori scholars, have each chosen an object from New ...Show more
Whispers of Waitaha : Traditions of a Nation by Peter & Makere Ruka Te Korako
$57.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Whispers of Waitaha: traditions of a nation tells simply of the oral transfer of information from grandparent to grandchild. This transfer, allowing for the "moko", design and the "puna", pool, to hold onto not only the physical attributes of transfer, but for the grandchild to become aware of the great ...Show more
Migration, Ethnicity and Madness: New Zealand 1860-1910 by Angela McCarthy
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Migration, Ethnicity, Madness: New Zealand 1860-1910 provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the et ...Show more
Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918 by Glyn Harper
$24.99 NZD
$55.00 (54% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: First World War Centenary History Ser.
The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation's history. Over 100,000 men and women would embark for overseas service and almost 60,000 of them became casualties. For a small nation like New Zealand this ...Show more
Bullrush by David Slack
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
A fun, fact-filled history and tribute to that most iconic of Kiwi childhood games, Bullrush, from its origins and its various bannings to its modern revival in the post-PC playground. Every Kiwi kid played it - or tried to avoid playing it. Either way there was no avoiding it. School playgrounds across ...Show more