1840 & All That

  • Fighting Underground And All That

    Fighting Underground And All That

    The Great War, as every schoolchild knows, was a Good Thing for nobody, and a particularly Bad Thing for the several million people who were requir...

  • The Musket Wars And All That

    The Musket Wars And All That

    The Musket Wars rearranged the population of New Zealand with considerable violence between roughly 1807 and 1845 (historians argue about both date...

  • History's Great Walks And All That

    History's Great Walks And All That

    As a nod to the Government's desire for more world history in the new social studies/history curriculum we thought we'd take a brief detour from Ao...

  • Early Missionaries And All That

    Early Missionaries And All That

    Early missionaries, and their families, came to New Zealand with no interest whatsoever in founding anything — except perhaps a few modest congrega...

  • Protesting The Treaty And All That

    Protesting The Treaty And All That

    In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed — or more accurately, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed by the majority, while the Treaty of Waitangi was ...

  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi And All That

    Te Tiriti o Waitangi And All That

    A Very Brief History of a Very Complicated Document In 1840, Britain and Māori chiefs signed what they thought was the same treaty. It wasn't. One ...