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The discovery of gold drew tens of thousands to New Zealand in search of fortune. It was a hard life, but those diggers brought mateship, fashion, and egalitarian ideas that changed the country forever.
E-Tangata
“Whina and the other League women are remembered for ‘assaulting the ears of Government Departments’, particularly on issues related to housing and mortgages.” — Dr Aroha Harris.
RNZ
Celebrations have been held this week to mark the 140th anniversary of the first shipment of frozen New Zealand lamb arriving in the UK. George Berry has been researching the history of that first voyage for many years.
Waves of mourners gathered at Auckland’s Ōrākei Marae to pay their respects to Joe Hawke, including many who were there when the occupation was evicted.
RNZ
What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?
Stuff
Nearly every time society has fractured over war, politics or the environment, John Miller has been there on the fault lines, carefully capturing the anger and heartbreak at the centre of protest.
Stuff
The Albertland Heritage Museum highlights the grand scheme to create a home for Nonconformist believers near Auckland.
Newsroom
David Hill on the two biggest-selling novels of the year
Stuff
The project to preserve a bridge crossed by thousands of New Zealand troops as they marched off to the battlefields of World War I is underway.
E-Tangata
“The bylines of some entries are so unique, so remarkable, as to make you marvel that such a person could exist — and then to wonder why it has taken until now for their stories to become known to the wider public.” — Kennedy Warne on 'Tāngata Ngāi Tahu'.
NZ Herald
14 years, 20 videos and an increasingly absurd collection of props.
Stuff
A new project is going back to 1870 to fill a six-decade gap in New Zealand’s rugby history.
Russell Cook (left) and Blair McPhee, of New Zealand Heritage Properties, work on cobblestones revealed in Robson Alley next to the planned...
The Defence Force is encouraging descendants of New Zealand's 28th (Māori) Battalion veterans to apply for their unclaimed ancestors war medals.
Newsroom
Refusing to acknowledge the Armenian genocide has been a long-standing position under successive NZ governments. It's time we stopped enabling denialists, writes Gareth Hughes.
Newsroom
WATCH: One woman's war - a video story on a notable Great War volunteer
We have cemeteries and cenotaphs to honour the dead. Those who are still with us deserve no less.
Stuff
A Blenheim woman intrigued about a photo of her missing uncle, has written a book about her eventful journey to find what happened to him.
Locals in two small villages in the heart of Maniototo are determined to finally get their own war memorial.
A Dunedin civilian whose disappearance during the chaotic fall of Singapore remains a mystery has finally been recognised for his heroic actions....
RNZ
A Cantabrian World War II hero well-known overseas is being recognised at home this Anzac Weekend.
Ann Robbie is being celebrated for her efforts.
After six decades in storage, "one of the prettiest aeroplanes ever built" offers a glimpse into history.
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of des...
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