Hot water over time – the New Zealand experience

A 2007 conference paper by Nigel Isaacs, Michael Camilleri and Lisa French, about hot-water provision in New Zealand homes (PDF, 423 KB).

Laundry equipment

From the Heritage New Zealand website, information about historic irons at Highwic in Auckland.

Technology: the domestic ideal

This section of the Caversham Project website includes pages about Blue Monday, vacuum cleaning and ironing in Caversham, Dunedin, from 1890 to 1940.

Coney, Sandra. Standing in the sunshine: a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote. Auckland: Viking, 1993.

Daley, Caroline. Girls & women, men & boys: gender in Taradale, 1886–1930. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.

O’Donnell, Jean-Marie. ‘”Electric servants” and the science of housework: changing patterns of domestic work, 1935–1956.’ In Women in history 2: essays on women in New Zealand, edited by Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant, 168–183. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1992.

Salmond, Jeremy. Old New Zealand houses, 1800–1940. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986.

Tennant, Margaret. ‘”Missionaries of Health”: the School Medical Service during the inter-war period.’ In A healthy country: essays on the social history of medicine in New Zealand, edited by Linda Bryder, 128–148. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.