Maggie Blackburn In 1854, just two years after leaving Scotland, Jane Deans buried her Presbyterian husband, according to Anglican rites, in a Church of England cemetery in Canterbury. The predominance of the Anglican church had ensured that the burial of one of the region’s most influential early European pioneers went against his most valued religious beliefs.
Katherine Somervell Along with language, cultural ideas and religion Europeans arrived in New Zealand with already formed ideas of gender and the specific role women were expected to play in a ‘civilised’ society.
Charlotte Kerr In the mid Nineteenth Century, medical practitioners were beginning to trickle into New Zealand from England, Scotland, and Ireland. Their roles were vastly different from the doctors we see in New Zealand today. Their long voyages as ship surgeons held many complications and the pressure to maintain the health of passengers was high. Further, once on land, the stories of their travels to reach patients over difficult terrain makes for compelling reading.
Cate Barnett Prior to the arrival of Pākehā in Aotearoa, language was primarily an oral medium for Māori. With the arrival of the first British missionaries however in the early nineteenth century, something of a ‘literacy boom’ exploded around the country.
Oliver Cheyne A small, but important community in New Zealand’s colonial history, the proud ‘Irish’ identity has sown itself into the New Zealand story, representing a distinctive narrative that has come to hold a unique part within the nation’s diverse culture. Irish migrants, comprising approximately one-fifth of the migrant population in the 1850s, maintained a strong presence in colonial New Zealand, owing to an innate sense of ‘Irishness’ that was embodied through the many communities and organisations set up to foster a unique Irish identity and culture. Irish culture was expressed in various ways, from communal gatherings to organised cultural and religious societies, and sports clubs, however, within the conception of Irish identity came the ideological rivalry between Republican and Loyalist Irish and the battle for Irish Home Rule and independence from British subjugation.
Corben Mortensen The image of New Zealand as a better Britain in the South Seas included the transplantation of its Anglo-Jewish religion and culture.
Lottie Cordery The journey itself tends to be forgotten in the story of migration. People seem to care about A and B of the journey without looking to experience the dramatic, eventful phase in between.
Mila Maxon The Controversy
On 26th April, 1874 the Asia landed in Dunedin with 466 immigrants. However, not all of these additions to the colony received the warm welcome they might have expected. The Otago Daily Times summarised the feelings of many New Zealanders when it wrote “immigration is a most necessary thing for the benefit of the Colony, but the importation of certified scum is anything but desirable”. Beth Swanson On the first of November 1878, Frances Pople Pheney sat down for the first time since boarding the Ship Dallam Tower bound for Otago from London, and recorded the first entry in her journal.
Jacob Cleghorn When it comes to relationships and marriage there are some people who believe that age is just a number and others that stick to western socio- cultural norms and select mates closer to their own age. New Zealand faced a substantial gender crisis during the 1840s to late 1890s. Census records show that in 1867, 60% of all pakeha consisted of men with a mere 40% being women.
Christine Latimer From native wildlife, thrilling adventures, culinary delights and wineries to beaches, blue skies, clear waters and a unique culture, New Zealand is a place which has a lot to offer citizens, tourists and migrants alike. Yet until recently, our country's migration flow has relied on the promotion of New Zealand’s 100% “pure” landscape continuing the tradition of presenting a misleading landscape based image created over 170 years ago.
Sarah Malone These were the settler women who fell between the cracks of nineteenth century New Zealand.
Sophie Stewart The attitudes of the first British and Irish migrants to Wellington were as foundational to the City’s establishment as the soil itself.
Summer Wick-Featonby The importance of education in New Zealand and Caledonian societies in New Zealand is without a doubt a reflection of its value in Scottish society, says Bueltmann (2011).
Taio Kessels Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong and then Singapore; by March 1942 all had fallen to Japanese aggression, what would be next? The vulnerable islands of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga? For many, the fear was real, so much so that a small few decided to travel the dangerous voyage to the perceived safety of the larger island of New Zealand.
Pictorial Propaganda: “Doing more to promote Emigrating than a thousand speeches and resolutions”24/11/2018
Jess McDonnell Early images produced by the New Zealand Company depicting the New Plymouth settlement were by no means accurate representations of the landscape. They were instead contrived pieces of propaganda purposefully manipulated to appeal to the values and expectation of potential settlers.
Hayley Young Looking at case studies of people who emigrated to New Zealand, helps identify people who were targeted by specific schemes, and those who benefited from the emigration. This short case study helps to understand a bit more about who the people were coming to New Zealand during the 1870s.
Tiana Karaka The Presbyterian community is one of the many religious groups within New Zealand today. However, this was not always the case.
Oscar van der Beek Scottish culture is one of the more distinctive branches to come out of Great Britain; with their history of conflict with the perfidious Anglos it is hardly surprising that when Scotsmen are dropped into an English colonial society they should in some small sense rebel and assert their culture.
Kiria Simpson New Zealand is a most splendid place, and we like it very well indeed! - Said many New Zealand immigrants in letters they sent home to their families in England during the 1840s.
AJ Green Would you move to a country halfway across the world? Would you risk death and poverty in a country not yet settled?
Kayla Brett Christchurch and the wider Canterbury was proposed by the Canterbury Association to be dominated by one form of religion. It was to be a Church of England settlement. This proved to be an idle dream as from the moment the first four ships landed Canterbury became home to more than one form of religion. A small number of sturdy Methodist families were among those that landed at Lyttleton in 1851.
Holly McLauchlin Social enhancement being the common testament of the time is reflective of the situation of Irish women of the late 19th century.
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