This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.govt.nz team.
Links
- Ngāti Toarangatira (Te Ara)
- Wellington - The struggle to survive (Te Ara)
- British immigration and the New Zealand Company (Te Ara)
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – contains biographical information on most of the people mentioned in this feature
- Digitised texts relating to the New Zealand Wars – on the NZ Electronic Text Collection website
Books
- Cowan, James, The New Zealand Wars, 2 volumes, reprinted by Government Printer, Wellington, 1983 (see also digitised versions of these volumes)
- Green, David, Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars: a visitor’s guide, Penguin, Auckland, 2010
- McLean, Gavin, Wellington: the first years of European settlement 1840–1850, Penguin, Auckland, 2000
- O'Malley, Vincent, The New Zealand Wars / Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2019
- Prickett, Nigel, Landscapes of conflict: a field guide to the New Zealand Wars, Random House, Auckland, 2002
- Ryan, Tim, and Bill Parham, The colonial New Zealand Wars, Grantham House, Wellington, 2002
