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5 days ago · A brief introduction to the early European settlement of Christchurch which covers significant events, people and buildings. Links to recommended information resources and photographs from our collections are included throughout.
5 days ago · By 1835 the first whaling ships were operating out of Lyttelton and two years later the first shore whaling station was set up at Peraki Bay. First settlers. The "Sarah and Elizabeth" on 12 April 1840 landed Messrs Herriott, McGillivray, Ellis, Shaw (and his wife) and McKinnon (with his wife and children) - the first European settlers on the plain.
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5 days ago · British explorer James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European to circumnavigate and map New Zealand. From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers and other sailors, missionaries, traders and adventurers.
5 days ago · The first four ships. Children’s information files, Christchurch City Libraries; Geoffrey W. Rice, Christchurch changing: an illustrated history. Christchurch, 2008; New Zealand's heritage Vol.2. Wellington, [1971-73] First four ships resources in Christchurch City Libraries’ catalogue; Related Pages. Digital Collection: Emigration
2 days ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
- Anglo-Saxon, Angle, Saxon
2 days ago · t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
2 days ago · The transfer of ‘Britishness’ beyond the British Isles was contingent on the mass migration of people from those islands, of 13.5 million British people settling across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United States between 1815 and 1930 (p. 6).
