Story: Alcohol

More links and websites

• Alcohol in our lives: curbing the harm

  The Law Commission’s 2010 review of the law on the sale of liquor.

• Alcohol use in New Zealand

  The Ministry of Health’s report on the 2007/8 survey of alcohol use in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Bollinger, Conrad. Grog’s own country: the story of liquor licensing in New Zealand. Auckland: Minerva, 1967.

• Donaldson, Michael. Beer nation: the art & heart of Kiwi beer. Auckland: Penguin, 2012.

• Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. Pleasures of the flesh: sex & drugs in colonial New Zealand, 1840–1915. Wellington: Reed, 1984.

• Harrison, Brian. Drink and the Victorians: the temperance question in England, 1815–1872. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

• Phillips, Jock. A man’s country?: the image of the pakeha male, a history. Auckland: Penguin, 1996.

• Ryan, Greg. ‘Drink and the historians – sober reflections on alcohol in New Zealand, 1840–1914.’ New Zealand Journal of History 44, no. 1 (April 2010): 35–53.