Queen’s Birthday honours reveal a New Zealand slowly recovering from its ‘imperial hangover’
- Written by Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury
GettyImagesIn the beginning there was no New Zealand honours system at all. New Zealanders received British honours as British subjects. So the very local honours handed out this Queen’s Birthday weekend also recognise how far Aotearoa New Zealand has come since the colonial era.
The British honours system originated in medieval times when...
