Kealani Cook is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu. His book, Return to Khaki: Native ...

Join Jason Murphy and Fiona Gray as we recap the highlights of Papers Past this year, including user text correction, preview ...

Guest blogger Jacqueline Leckie writes about her new book to mark the centenary in 2025 of Wellington’s Indian community.

Search to find standardised terms for iwi and hapū in New Zealand. Use them when cataloguing and describing relevant material. The Iwi Hapū Names list identifies alternative spellings and variations ...

Born in Christchurch, and raised in Hawke’s Bay, Alan Dingley is the current Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador. Alan has over 25 years of experience working with children and young people, almost 20 ...

Can’t make it to the library? No problem! You can still explore “A child of the sun” with our online exhibition. When Katherine Mansfield ecstatically proclaimed in her notebook that she wanted to be ...

Tuia Mātauranga highlights local people, places, and events that have helped shape our nation. The histories of Aotearoa New Zealand have multiple perspectives, some are presented here for you to ...

A selection of stories and songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s that were both written and performed by New Zealanders from the Sunday morning radio show, Small world. Notes The kiwi bird / Whitcup, ...

For Taranaki Māori, 5 November 1881 is known as ‘Te Rā o te Pāhua’ or the ‘Day of Plunder’. The invasion of Parihaka — te pāhuatanga — involved 1500 armed constabulary and volunteers led by the Native ...

"Received at the Motor Registration Centre, Palmerston North" - Oct. 1973 issue. Description based on: Nov. 1972; title from cover. Commercial vehicle registrations Jan. to Oct. 1974 bound into 1 vol.

Drawing on his deep knowledge of the Flying Nun record label and associated bands, William Daymond writes about his work helping the Library improve our catalogue records for the 162 audiocassettes ...

Reports on a visit to the Rangitoto Ranges to view the area where a bush tramway ran in logging operations in the mid 1950s until Oct 1956. Backgrounds the operation of the Smyth Bros and Boryer ...