This web feature was written by Imelda Bargas and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team. It builds on an earlier feature written by Jamie Mackay.
Links
- First World War 90th Anniversary (Imperial War Museum)
- History of Armistice Day (RNZRSA)
- Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand). This website contains digitised newspapers from 1918 which provide a range of contemporary accounts of the armistice celebrations.
- Remembrance Day (Wikipedia)
Books and articles
- Nicholas Best, The greatest day in history: how the war really ended, Phoenix, London, 2008
- Christopher Pugsley, ‘New Zealand: the heroes lie in France’, in Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle (eds), At the eleventh hour: reflections, hope and anxieties at the closing of the Great War, 1918, Leo Cooper, South Yorkshire, 1998
- G.W. Rice, Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, revised edn, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2005
