Story: Sport and society

More links and websites

• Active NZ Survey 2013/2014

  This survey provides information on the activities and sporting behaviour of New Zealanders in the early 2000s.

• Sport

  The NZ History website provides a series of excellent essays about different New Zealand sports.

More suggestions and sources

• Coney, Sandra. Standing in the sunshine: a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote. Auckland: Penguin, 1993.
• Grant, David. On a roll: a history of gambling and lotteries in New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1994.
• Macdonald, Charlotte. ‘Organisations in sport, recreation and leisure.’ In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.
• Ryan, Greg. The making of New Zealand cricket, 1832–1914. London: Frank Cass, 2004.
• Ryan, Greg, ed. Tackling rugby myths: rugby and New Zealand society 1854–2004. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2005.