A New Life in our History is the first account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people. Volume III, Crimson Ties, tells how the Edwards, Biggar, Nicholson and Petersen families helped build a new community at the Croydon Bush Village Settlement near Gore in Southland. It follows the children of the original settlers as they left to fight in South Africa during the Boer War and then Gallipoli and along the Western Front during World War I.Over twenty five years in the making, A New Life in our History is an unprecedented attempt to show how ordinary people made history happen.