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Kia ora, nau mai haere mai. Ka wani kē kua tae mai koe! Kāre e kore ka puta mai ētahi kōrero pārekareka, me kōrerorero pea tātou.

Hi! Great to see you. We've got tons to talk about so bring your friends, have a read and speak your mind.

September 19th, 2016

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Marama Warren: Living a creative life

By Rose-Marie Tonk

Discovering a creator of unique books and bringing them into the collections.

September 15th, 2016

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‘…there is something doing soon.’

By Peter Ireland

New Zealand voices from the Somme.

September 12th, 2016

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Telling new stories with old maps

By Sydney Shep

September 5th, 2016

Long reads

Exploding cows, baby killers and death rays

By Dylan Owen

The extraordinary life of James Pomeroy, inventor.

August 31st, 2016

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"I am so longing for letters"

By Camus Wyatt

Digitising the wartime diaries of Norman Gray.

August 26th, 2016

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Ars Poetica

By Fiona Oliver

An ode to poems and poets.

August 8th, 2016

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30 years

By Linda Evans

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act.

August 3rd, 2016

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Making sense of spatial data

By Mairéad de Roiste

Using maps and spatial analysis to explore problems.

July 26th, 2016

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The changing face of Aotearoa

By Kevin Norton

A brief introduction to geomorphology for our Unfolding the map exhibition.

July 21st, 2016

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The future of maps

By Aaron Jordan

How we've gotten to today's state of the art in cartography, and where we might be going.

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