Posts tagged with first world war

Looking back on the ways local communities have observed Anzac Day.

Commemorate Anzac Day with us and watch ‘Great War Stories’ with a focus on Māori and Pacific stories.

A running series by National Library staff bringing to life different sides of the First World War centenary story.

British artist Geoffrey Allfree's watercolour shows how enormous quantities of bully beef, biscuits and other stores were set alight during the evacuation.

My grandfather arrived at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, the day the Wellington Infantry Battalion captured Chunuk Bair. This is his story.

Kate Hunter's opening remarks for the launch of Chris Bourke’s latest book.

Remembering 2nd Lieutenant William Henry Comper, who died 4 Oct 1917, in the Battle of Broodseinde.

Some German ephemera from occupied Europe.

The Battle of the Somme reveals the effects of a chilly press in wartime.

New Zealand voices from the Somme.

The extraordinary life of James Pomeroy, inventor.

Digitising the wartime diaries of Norman Gray.

The diary and letters of a New Zealand officer in World War One.

A watercolour painting of the fortified position at Gallipoli known as Courtney’s Post.

Revealing emendations in a despatch for Lord Kitchener.

A collaborative web collection.

Postal Censorship during the First World War

An influential Chinese scholar’s disillusionment and re-evaluation of the West after visiting the Peace Conference at Versailles.

Anti-German feeling in New Zealand during the First World War.

More stories of musically-minded New Zealand soldiers and the songs they wrote.