This web feature was written by Neill Atkinson and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Explore Te Ara for content on the 1920s, including the History of immigration – Between the Wars
- Search the National Library’s PapersPast website for newspapers from the 1920s, especially the influential NZ Truth
- The NZ Electronic Text Centre is a free online archive of full-text books and journals, including 1920s publications like the NZ Railways Magazine (1926–40)
- Explore 1920s filmgoing at the NZ Film Archives site and watch clips from Rudall Hayward’s films Rewi’s last stand and A daughter of Dunedin
Books and other publications
- Stephen Barnett (comp.), Those were the days: a nostalgic look at the 1920s from the pages of the Weekly News, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 1988
- R.M. Burdon, The new Dominion: a social and political history of New Zealand, 1918–1939, Allen & Unwin, London, 1965
- Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of dreams: the story of New Zealand, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2005
- Patrick Day, The radio years: a history of broadcasting in New Zealand, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1994
- Miles Fairburn, ‘The Farmers Take Over (1912–1930)’, in Keith Sinclair (ed.), The Oxford illustrated history of New Zealand, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1997
- Turnbull Library Record 2009, vol. 42, Wellington, 2010 (contains articles on the Prince of Wales’ tour, Anna Pavlova’s visit and jazz in 1920s New Zealand)
