Tooth and Veil - The life and times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse by Noel O'Hare
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in 15 countries. This is the story of those on the front line of that experiment, the dental nurses who endured military-style training, poor resourcing and pe ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more
The History of a Riot (BWB Texts) by Jared Davidson
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet ...Show more
Women Will Rise - Recalling the Working Women’s Charter by Gay Simpkin, Marie Russell
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
In the late 1970s, as the women’s movement was fracturing, trade union women put forward a new agenda to bring feminists and women workers together. The one-page, 16-clause Working Women’s Charter covered … ★ the right to work ★ equal pay ★ an end to discrimination at work ★ better conditions, family le ...Show more
New Zealand Nurses - Caring for Our People 1880-1950 by Pamela Wood
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Pamela Wood is a retired academic, registered nurse and independent historian. She taught in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes and postgraduate health programmes for 30 years and is the author of Dirt: Filth and decay in a New World Arcadia.
Kiwis in Conflict: A History of New Zealanders at War Revised and Updated by Christopher Pugsley; Laurie Barber; 93299210342009329921034200
60.00 NZD
Category: Military
Kiwis in Conflict is the story of New Zealand and New Zealanders at war from the mid-19th century to the present day. Originally published as Scars of the Heart, this new revised and updated edition examines the impact of war through the eyes of those involved using photographs, paintings, letters and d ...Show more
The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
A short memoir whose main focus is unpacking a family story that was never told:that a farm in Taranaki on which the family's generations-long comfortable fortunes rested had been directly taken from the people of Parikaha and given to an ancestor, a member of the Armed Constabulary following the invasi ...Show more
Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand by Jeff Evans
42.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he and the many canoes that followed find their way without modern navigational techniques through perilous seas in wooden canoes? By examining myth, star charts ...Show more
Trams Still Around New Zealand by Graham Stewart
49.00 NZD
Category: Railways
Trams Still Around New Zealand is true to its title, detailing the existence of 99 trams; 85 New Zealand trams and 14 trams from Australia now resident here. Between the covers the reader will discover that the tramcar in New Zealand is far from a street vehicle of the past. Already the tram has returne ...Show more
Fishing the Tongariro by Grant Henderson
60.00 NZD
Category: Fishing
Since the 1900s the fly fisher’s mecca that is the Tongariro River has lured people from all over the world to cast a line on its wide waters. Author Grant Henderson tells the river’s angling story – tracing the rise of the Tongariro River’s popularity as a fishing destination, the creation of the trout ...Show more
1921: Rugby Race & Empire by Mike Munro
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
In the winter of 1921 a Springboks rugby team toured New Zealand for the first time, captivating the country. An all-white team of mostly Afrikaners, they came cloaked in a powerful mystique – blue-eyed, “youthful giants” from a fellow British colony. Twenty-three of the team had served in the just-ende ...Show more