British Museum
(Organisation)
The British Museum in London, England is a museum of human history and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
Works by this Author in Our Collection
Mentioned in
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Visiting Botanists
- England and the Maori Wars
- Geoffrey Alley, Librarian: His Life & Work
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Journey Towards Christmas
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 12 October, 1926
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 13 December, 1926
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 27 November, 1926
- Mahoe Leaves; Being a Selection of Sketches of New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, and Other Matters Concerning Them
- Mangaian Society
- Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
- My First Eighty Years
- New Zealanders and Science
- New Zealand Plants and their Story
- Recollecting Mansfield
- Samoan Material Culture
- Some Problems of Cook's Biographer
- Sport 4: Autumn 1990
- The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
- The Coming of the Maori
- The Discovery of New Zealand
- The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
- The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume One]
- The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914 - 1919
- The Nature of Art
- The New Zealand Evangelist
- The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa: 1845–1884
- The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
- The Wandering Scholars
- Ways and By-Ways of a Singing Kiwi with the N.Z. Divisional Entertainers in France
- With the Cameliers in Palestine
External Links
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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 British Museum as: "British Museum". 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 "British Museum":
- 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.