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The recent publications of the History Group can be purchased from any good bookstore, or by contacting the publisher. Links to publishers' websites (when available) are shown below. [See also History Group Publications 1981-1999]
2005
More Than Law and Order: Policing a Changing Society, 1945-92, Susan Butterworth (University of Otago Press)
New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy, Roberto Rabel (Auckland University Press)
Hell or High Water: New Zealand Merchant Seafarers Remember the War, Neill Atkinson (ed.) (HarperCollins)
[See also the Merchant Navy exhibition on NZHistory.net.nz]
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand, Bronwyn Dalley & Gavin McLean (eds) (Hodder Moa)
We Call it Home: A History of State Housing in New Zealand, Ben Schrader (Reed Publishing)
[See also We Call it Home: a web exhibition on NZHistory.net.nz]
The Desert Road: New Zealanders Remember the North African Campaign, Megan Hutching (ed.) (HarperCollins)
[See also the North African Campaign exhibition on NZHistory.net.nz]
Gallipoli: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials, Ian McGibbon (Reed Publishing)
[See also an adaptation of this guide on the Anzac.govt.nz website]
2004
A Carved Cloak for Tahu, Mere Whaanga (Auckland University Press)
Putea Whakairo: Maori and the Written Word, Bradford Haami (Huia Publishers)
Our Islands, Ourselves: A History of Conservation in New Zealand, David Young (University of Otago Press)
The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism, Margaret McClure (Auckland University Press)
The House: New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854 - 2004, John E. Martin (Dunmore Press)
[See The House: a web exhibition on NZHistory.net.nz and a review from Making History]
A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders Remember the Italian Campaign, Megan Hutching (ed.) (HarperCollins)
[See Italian Campaign exhibition on NZHistory.net.nz and a review from Making History]
New Zealand and the Second World War: The People, the Battles and the Legacy, Ian McGibbon (Hodder Moa Beckett)
[See a review from Making History]
2003
Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury, 1840 - 2000, Malcolm McKinnon (Auckland University Press)
Adventures in Democracy: A History of the Vote in New Zealand, Neill Atkinson (University of Otago Press)
[See History of the Vote exhibition at elections.org.nz and a review from Making History]
New Zealand: Opening to the World, 1930s - 1990s, Compiled by Steve Watters (David Bateman)
From Emergency to Confrontation: The New Zealand Armed Forces in Malaya and Borneo 1949-66, Chris Pugsley (OUP)
2002
Inside Stories: New Zealand Prisoners of War Remember, Megan Hutching (ed.) (HarperCollins)
[See NZ POWs exhibition on NZhistory.net.nz and a review from Making History]
Learning for Life: The origins of Auckland University of Technology 1895 - 2000, Louise Shaw (Auckland University of Technology)
Statistics Count: An Illustrated History of Statistics New Zealand, David Green (Statistics New Zealand). Available from Statistics NZ.
[See 'Working with Statistics' exhibition on NZhistory.net.nz.]
'A Fair and Just Solution'? A History of the Integration of Private Schools in New Zealand, Rory Sweetman (Dunmore Press)
[More information about this book on NZHistory.net.nz and a review from Making History]
Rewarding Service: A History of the Government Superannuation Fund, Neill Atkinson (University of Otago Press)
[More information about this book on NZHistory.net.nz and a review from Making History]
Kiwi Sappers: The Corps of the Royal New Zealand Engineers' Century of Service, Ian McGibbon (Reed Publishing)
2001
New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials of the Western Front, Ian McGibbon (Oxford University Press)
[More information about this book, including a feature on Le Quesnoy, on NZHistory.net]
New Zealand: An Emerging Identity, 1870s - 1930s, Compiled by Steve Watters (David Bateman)
[More information about this, including an extract on the 'Colony in 1874', on NZHistory.net]
Wellington Polytechnic 1962 to 1999: A History, Ian Dougherty (Massey University)
'A Unique Sort of Battle': New Zealanders Remember Crete, Megan Hutching (ed.) (HarperCollins)
[Related exhibition on the Battle of Crete on NZHistory.net]
2000
Town and Country: The National Associations and Insurance Companies of Local Government in New Zealand, Bryan Gilling and Alan Henderson (Local Government New Zealand)
Living in the Twentieth Century: New Zealand History in Photographs, 1900 - 1980, Bronwyn Dalley (Bridget Williams Books/Craig Potton Publishing)
[Extracts from Living in the Twentieth Century on NZHistory.net]
New Zealand: The Making of a Colony, 1815 - 1870, Compiled by Steve Watters (David Bateman)
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume 5, 1941 - 1960, Claudia Orange (ed.) (Auckland University Press/Department of Internal Affairs)
[See NZHistory.net for a series of thematic essays relating to this volume]
Nga Tangata Taumata Rau Volume 5, 1941 - 1960, (Auckland University Press/Department of Internal Affairs)
Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History, Ian McGibbon (ed.) (Oxford University Press)
[See NZHistory.net for essays from the OCNZMH on Anzac Day, the Gallipoli Campaign, the South African War and World War Two]
Breadwinning: New Zealand Women and the State, Melanie Nolan (Canterbury University Press)
