This web feature was written by David Green and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Books
- Caroline Daley, Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1999
- Andrew Davies, Leisure, Gender and Poverty: Working-class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1939, Open University Press, Buckingham, 1992
- Thomas R. Ellison, The Art of Rugby Football, with Hints and Instructions on Every Point of the Game, Geddis and Blomfield, Wellington, 1902
- Thomas Eyton, Rugby Football (Past and Present) and the Tour of the Native Team, William Hart, Palmerston North, 1896
- Geoff Fougere, 'Sport, Culture and Identity: The Case of Rugby Football', in David Novitz and Bill Willmott (eds), Culture and Identity in New Zealand, GP Books, Wellington, 1989
- Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989
- Irwin Hunter, New Zealand Rugby Football: Some Hints and Criticisms, 2nd edition, Whitcombe and Tombs, Auckland, [1929]
- John Mulvaney, Cricket Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967
- Ron Palenski, Our National Game: A Celebration of 100 Years of NZ Rugby, Moa Beckett, Glenfield, 1992
- Jock Phillips, A Man's Country? The Image of the Pakeha Male: A History, Penguin, Auckland, 1987
- Greg Ryan, Forerunners of the All Blacks: The 1888-89 New Zealand Native Football Team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 1993
- Brian Stoddart, 'Sport, Cultural Imperialism, and Colonial Response in the British Empire', Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 30, no. 4, Oct 1988
- Arthur C. Swan, History of New Zealand Rugby Football 1870-1945, A.H. and A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1948
- Colin Tatz, Aborigines in Sport, ASSH Studies in Sport, no. 3, Australian Society for Sports History, Adelaide, 1987