Britain
(Place)
Mentioned in
- 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 21 Battalion
- 22 Battalion
- 23 Battalion
- 24 Battalion
- 25 Battalion
- 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
- 28 (Maori) Battalion
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
- Alam Halfa and Alamein
- An Introduction to Samoan Custom
- Battle for Egypt
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- New Zealand English
- Printed works in Māori to the 1850s
- [section]
- Type and materials
- Author and publisher
- Restrictions to publishing
- Colonial editions
- Newspapers
- Educational publishing
- Religious publishing
- Directories
- Changing trends and special needs
- Before 1877
- Reading series and methods
- [section]
- French
- Chaplains
- Crete
- Divisional Cavalry
- Divisional Signals
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
- 124 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 176 — The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 232 — The Prime Minister to the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Canberra)2
- 240 — The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Canberra)
- 354 — The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the High Commissioner for New Zealand (London) — [Extract]
- (a) Relative strategical importance of European and Pacific theatres
- (b) Political
- Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
- Index
- 11 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom (Wellington)
- 16 — The Governor-General of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs1
- 44 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the acting Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 121 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 158 — The High Commissioner for New Zealand (London) to the Prime Minister3
- 184 — The Governor-General of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs1 — [Extract]
- 286 — The New Zealand Minister, Washington, to the Prime Minister
- Episodes & Studies Volume 1
- Episodes & Studies Volume 2
- BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
- COVERING THE NORTH AFRICAN LANDINGS
- THE CAMPAIGN IN NORWAY
- EARLY STRATEGIC BOMBING
- THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
- PROLOGUE
- THE STAGE IS SET
- THE ALL-OUT BLOW AGAINST FIGHTER COMMAND
- THE GREATEST DAY—15 AUGUST 1940
- THE ATTACK ON THE AIRFIELDS
- IN RETROSPECT
- Leander on Foreign Service
- First Leander
- [editorpage]
- SPITFIRES OVER MALTA
- OVER TO THE OFFENSIVE
- Pacific Coastwatching
- No. 62 (Bomber) Squadron
- Nos. 243 and 488 Squadrons
- Fighter Operations
- Fulbright in New Zealand
- History of New Zealand. Vol. III.
- Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino
- Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
- Journey Towards Christmas
- Contents
- Chapter 2 — How To See Egypt On A Pound A Week
- Chapter 6 — Withdrawal From Greece
- Chapter 7 — Island Interlude
- Chapter 8 — Murder On The Old Hook
- Chapter 10 — Thursday, Friday, And Saturday
- Chapter 12 — Syria
- Chapter 14 — A Study In Discomfort
- (3) Diversion to a Dragon-Slaying
- (2) Drive to a Cricket Match
- Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 4 April, 1927
- Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
- Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
- 2 — The Setting of the Pyre
- Town, country and bush
- The village and the globe
- Classes and interests
- Nelson (1886 population 7,315)
- Wellington as ‘head’ port of the ‘Cook Strait Lake’
- Roads, tracks and horses
- The ‘Our Own Correspondents’
- The weeklies and their agricultural pages
- Customs and traditions of fire use
- South Taranaki 1881–86: farming for what?
- 10 Patterns
- G Articles
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
- CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Appendix I — Principal Events of the Second World War 1939–42
- CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations from Britain and France
- CHAPTER 3 — Meeting the German Attack
- CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
- CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
- CHAPTER 6 — Defeating the Night Raider
- CHAPTER 7 — Air War at Sea
- CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
- CHAPTER 9 — The Part of No. 75 Squadron
- CHAPTER 10 — Increasing New Zealand Participation— Formation of Nos. 485,488, and 489 Squadrons
- CHAPTER 11 — Day Fighters, 1941
- CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
- CHAPTER 13 — Pathfinders and Raids on Italy
- CHAPTER 14 — Battle of the Atlantic, 1942
- CHAPTER 16 — Day Fighters During 1942
- CHAPTER 17 — Night Fighters, 1942
- Bibliography
- Index
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
- CHAPTER 1 — Introduction
- Contents
- Appendix I — PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1943–45
- CHAPTER 2 — Aircraft against U-boat
- CHAPTER 3 — Bomber Command and the Battle of the Ruhr
- CHAPTER 4 — Longer-range Attacks
- CHAPTER 6 — Daylight Raids by the Light Bombers
- CHAPTER 7 — Day-Fighters and Fighter-bombers
- CHAPTER 8 — Night Fighters
- CHAPTER 9 — Prelude to Invasion
- CHAPTER 11 — Flying Bombs and Rockets
- CHAPTER 12 — Forward to the Rhine
- CHAPTER 13 — Transport and Special Duties
- CHAPTER 14 — Bomber Command and the Battle of Germany
- CHAPTER 15 — Coastal Command Patrols
- CHAPTER 16 — The Last Phase
- CHAPTER 17 — Mission Completed
- Bibliography
- Index
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
- CHAPTER 1 — Prelude to War
- Contents
- CHAPTER 11 — Malaya, Sumatra, and Java
- CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations over Many Fronts
- CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
- CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
- CHAPTER 6 — Malta
- CHAPTER 7 — Sicily
- CHAPTER 8 — Italy
- CHAPTER 9 — Beyond the Italian Battlefront
- CHAPTER 12 — The Retreat from Burma
- CHAPTER 13 — Fighting Back from India
- CHAPTER 14 — Air Superiority and the Arakan Battle
- CHAPTER 15 — Operation thursday and the Victory at Imphal
- CHAPTER 16 — Back to Rangoon—the Last Phase
- New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
- Petrol Company
- Political and External Affairs
- Prelude: A Field Defined
- CHAPTER 1 — September 1939
- CHAPTER 3 — The Radical Criticism
- CHAPTER 4 — The Critical Year
- CHAPTER 5 — Impact of a Labour Government
- CHAPTER 6 — Defence Policy
- CHAPTER 7 — The Eleventh Hour
- CHAPTER 8 — Explosion
- CHAPTER 9 — Whither?
- CHAPTER 10 — Settling Down
- CHAPTER 11 — Search for Unity
- CHAPTER 12 — Awkward Minorities
- CHAPTER 13 — The Opposition Opposes
- CHAPTER 14 — Politicians and Soldiers
- CHAPTER 15 — Impact of the Pacific
- CHAPTER 16 — A Second Front
- CHAPTER 17 — Pyrrhic Victory
- CHAPTER 18 — The Scarcity of New Zealanders
- CHAPTER 19 — Stock Taking
- CHAPTER 20 — Food or Fighting Men?
- CHAPTER 21 — The Politics of Fighting Japan
- CHAPTER 22 — Foundations of the Future
- CHAPTER 23 — Trusteeship in Action
- CHAPTER 24 — Welfare and Peace
- CHAPTER 25 — East and West
- CHAPTER 26 — Small Power Rampant
- Bibliography
- Polynesian Researches
- Prisoners of War
- I: Early Air Force Prisoners
- III: Protection of the Interests of Prisoners of War and Civilians in Enemy Hands
- I: Prisoners of War captured in Europe in 1940
- V: Work of Relief Organisations
- VI: Germans and Italians interned in New Zealand
- II: The Crete Campaign—Prisoners in Greece and Germany
- II: Prisoners in Germany
- V: Relief Work
- I: Japanese Victories
- V: Protection of the Interests of Prisoners of War and Civilians
- VII: Enemy Aliens in New Zealand
- I: Events preceding and immediately following the Italian Armistice
- III: Escapes from Italy after the Armistice
- V: Protection of the Interests of Prisoners of War and Civilians
- VI: Relief Work
- IV: Relief Supplies for the Far East
- I: The Events of 1944 and German Camps from late 1943 onwards
- IV: Escaped Prisoners in Switzerland
- Problems of 2 NZEF
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- [section]
- EXPANSION PROGRAMMES, 1937–39
- [section]
- OPERATIONAL RESOURCES OF THE RNZAF AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
- FORMATION OF NEW GENERAL RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRONS
- OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH JAPAN
- [section]
- REQUESTS TO BRITAIN FOR REINFORCEMENTS
- PREPARATION OF AERODROMES
- DEVELOPMENT OF RADAR
- NEGOTIATIONS TO OBTAIN EQUIPMENT
- MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT
- [section]
- despatch of no.52 radar unit to guadalcanal
- situation in bismarcks-solomons
- the post-war air force
- Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
- Sport 13 Spring 1994
- Sport 16: Autumn 1996
- Sport 4: Autumn 1990
- Sport 7: Winter 1991
- Sport 8: Autumn 1992
- Supply Company
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- [section]
- 1 Brogdens' Navvies
- 2 The Village World and the Labourers' Revolt
- 3 Agents and Emigrants, 1871–73
- 4 The Flood Tide of 1874
- 5 Colony and Hearthland, 1874–80
- 6 Oxfordshire and Wychwood Forest
- 7 Lincolnshire and the Northern Wolds
- 12 New Zealand — Feldon
- 15 The Quality of the Immigrants
- 16 The Farthest Promised Land
- 3 Agents and Emigrants, 1871–73
- 8 The Midland Vales
- 10 Cornwall and Devon
- 13 New Zealand — Arden
- Published Official Papers
- Books and Pamphlets
- The Home Front Volume I
- CHAPTER 1 — The End of Waiting
- OFFICIAL HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939–45
- List of Illustrations
- CHAPTER 2 — Impact of War
- CHAPTER 3 — The First Moves
- CHAPTER 4 — Response from the Home Front
- CHAPTER 5 — Pacifism
- CHAPTER 6 — A Dissenting Minority
- CHAPTER 7 — Conscientious Objectors and Defaulters
- CHAPTER 8 — Blood is Spilt
- CHAPTER 9 — The Menace of Japan
- CHAPTER 10 — War Comes to the Pacific
- CHAPTER 11 — The Challenge is Accepted
- CHAPTER 12 — Defence by the People
- CHAPTER 13 — Russia and the War
- CHAPTER 14 — The American Invasion
- The Home Front Volume II
- CHAPTER 15 — Manpower is Directed
- List of Illustrations
- CHAPTER 16 — The Shoe Pinches
- CHAPTER 17 — More Shortages
- CHAPTER 18 — Aliens
- CHAPTER 19 — Censorship
- CHAPTER 20 — Camp Followers
- CHAPTER 21 — Women At War
- CHAPTER 22 — Education
- CHAPTER 23 — The Arts Survive
- CHAPTER 24 — Victory at Last
- Index
- D. GENERAL PUBLISHED SOURCES
- The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
- The New Zealand Dental Services
- The New Zealanders at Gallipoli
- The New Zealand Survey
- The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa: 1845–1884
- The Pacific
- The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
- The Right Honourable Sir Francis H. D. Bell, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.,: His Life and Times
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- Chapter 1 — Genesis of Royal New Zealand Navy
- CHAPTER 6 — The Cruise of the Leander
- CHAPTER 7 — Hunting Raiders in the Indian Ocean
- CHAPTER 10 — Cruise of the Orion and Komet
- CHAPTER 16 — The Aggressions of Japan
- CHAPTER 25 — The Surrender of Japan
- CHAPTER 29 — New Zealanders in the Royal Navy
- CHAPTER 28 — Development of Radar
- Appendix VII — RECORD OF HMS NEW ZEALAND
- Appendix IX — NEW ZEALAND TRAINING SHIP AMOKURA
- Index
- FIRST LEANDER, 1780:
- The Trials of Eric Mareo
- To Greece
- CHAPTER 1 — The First Echelon
- Appendix I — Strengths and Casualties
- CHAPTER 2 — The Second Echelon
- CHAPTER 3 — Third Echelon joins the First
- CHAPTER 4 — The First Libyan Campaign, 1940–41
- CHAPTER 5 — Assembly and Training of the New Zealand Division
- Britain's Policy
- Hitler's Plans
- Plans for Barbarity Force
- Suggestion that New Zealand Troops be Sent to Crete
- Hitler Decides to Attack Greece
- Britain Decides to Assist Greece
- New Zealand Division to go to Greece
- The Misunderstanding about the Aliakmon Line
- The New Zealand Government Makes its Decision
- Movement of New Zealand Division to Greece
- The Aliakmon Line
- The Supply Problem
- Air Support
- New Zealand Units in the Desert
- The Problems of the Campaign
- The Importance of the Campaign
- Index
- War Economy
- List of Illustrations
- Prelude: The War Effort
- Noteworthy Events Since The War
- Index
- The Need to Prepare
- Labour Losses on Farms
- Most Reserves Inadequate at Outbreak of War
- Needs of the United Kingdom
- Wartime Controls
- Shipping and Storage Difficulties
- A Bad Season in 1943–44 and the Introduction of Rationing
- Meat Production at High Levels
- Assessment of the Early Attempts at Stabilisation
- Pricing Problems
- Petrol Rationing
- Marketing of Food
- Rationing of New Zealand-Grown Foods
- Food Crisis in Britain
- Pacific Division Becomes a Token Force
- Gifts to Britain
- Subsidised Agriculture and Dumped Surpluses
- The European Economic Community
- Direction of Trade
- War Surgery and Medicine
- ‘Guardians and Wards’ : (A study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa.)
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For several reasons, including lack of resource and inherent ambiguity, not all names in the NZETC are marked-up. This means that finding all references to a topic often involves searching. Search for Britain as: "Britain". Additional references are often found by searching for just the main name of the topic (the surname in the case of people).
Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Britain":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.