A New Life in our History: the settlement of Australia and New Zealand: volume II Paradise Found ? (1830s to 1890s)

This is the second part of A New Life in Our History, an account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people.

By the 1830s, reformers opposed to transportation were promoting a more enlightened solution to Britain’s social and economic difficulties: systematic colonisation. The focus of their work included New Zealand, ruled by the Māori and already home to the Laurie family.

Paradise Found covers the Laurie’s days at Kawhia, their dealings with...