Story: English

More links and websites

• Archives New Zealand Christchurch: immigration

  This is a section of the exhibition Past caring, on an Archives New Zealand site. It deals with immigration policy during the development of the Canterbury settlement.

• The English – where from?

  Part of the NZ History website, this article includes graphs and information about the regional origins of English migrants to New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Arnold, Rollo. The farthest promised land:
  English villagers, New Zealand immigrants of the
  1870s. Wellington: Victoria University
  Press/Price Milburn, 1981.
• Constantine, P., ed. Emigrants and empire:
  British settlement in the dominions between the
  wars. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
  1990.
• Erickson, Charlotte. Leaving England: essays
  on British emigration in the nineteenth
  century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
  1994.
• Galt, M. N. ‘Who came to New Zealand? New light
  on the origins of British settlers, 1840–1889.’ In
  New Zealand Population Review 21, nos 1
  and 2, (May/November 1995): 50–71.
• Macdonald, Charlotte. A woman of good
  character: single women as immigrant settlers in
  nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington:
  Allen & Unwin/Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1990.
• Simpson, Tony. The immigrants: the great
  migration from Britain to New Zealand,
  1830–1890. Auckland: Godwit, 1997.