Posts tagged with history

A black and white photo of three women in a market assessing a canned item.

Off the record | A century of the capital’s Indian community

By Jacqueline Leckie
14 November 2024
Researching the vibrant history of the Indian community in Wellington.
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A group of people are seen marching together along a dirt road.

Off the record | Peaceful activism in the Pacific

By Kealani Cook
6 November 2024
Researching passive resistance and mass civil disobedience in Oceania.
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A black and white portrait of a young girl with a ribbon in her hair.

Queen Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga

By Geraldine Warren
21 August 2024
Discovering the Queen of Tonga and her ties to New Zealand.
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Poster for Queer History Month Aoteaora Pūmahara ia te wā 2024.

Queer History Month Aotearoa Pūmahara Ia Te Wā 2024

By Reuben Love
9 July 2024
Libraries and the LGBTQ+ community.
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A group of young boys stands around a newly planted tree with their teacher instructing them.

Flock House — A centennial story

By Jared Davidson
27 June 2024
The story of Flock House an agricultural and farm training school from 1924 to 1987.
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Title from a book cover in orange and white lettering.

‘Pressing On — The Story of New Zealand’s Newspapers, 1921-2000’

By Sir Hugh Rennie
5 June 2024
Opening remarks from the launch of Ian Grant's history of NZ newspapers.
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A woman stands among archival shelving lined with boxes of photographic prints while holding open a box and displaying a black and white print.

Te hokinga mai

By Jessica Moran
31 January 2024
The return to New Zealand of photos from the Fairfax Archive of newspaper prints.
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Red postbox with posters stuck on it.

Observations on a surviving relic: The red pillar postbox

By Olivia Kielczewski
17 November 2023
The life and times of a Wellington red postbox.
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Shows strike action with men walking in a procession carrying large signs and banners.

The eight-hour workday

By Louise Garrett
20 October 2023
Photography collections documenting New Zealand's labour history and the workers' rights movement.
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A man holds a huge cabbage that appears to have just been harvested.

Lettuce celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month

By Fiona Oliver
12 October 2023
Collection inspiration documenting the many vegetable-related materials held by the Library.
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A group of people leaning over a table watching a woman making a box.

Off the record | Keeping it local

By Chris Szekely
6 September 2023
An interview with Vicki-Anne Heikell about working in the world of conservation.
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A typed manuscript on a table surrounded by copies of books all titled ‘the bone people’.

Off the record | A welcome home

By Paul Diamond and Seán McMahon
11 August 2023
About the typed manuscript of ‘the bone people’.
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Group photo of Māori men and women at the National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

Iwi Archivist Symposium, Te Pūranga

By Vicki-Anne Heikell
4 August 2023
Awhi mai awhi atu, sharing how we care for culture and heritage.
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A woman observes a painting that is being held in a wooden archival storage device.

Off the record | With help from our Friends

By Jennifer Cauchi
26 July 2023
Conservation treatment of Isabella Turnbull's portrait.
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Dried plants on a piece of paper with copperplate writing underneath.

Off the record | Rehousing Colenso’s plants

By Laura Van Echten
30 June 2023
Caring for dried botanical specimens.
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Cassette tapes are stored in grey archival drawers with labels.

Off the record | We hear you listening, right where you are

By Sarah Walker
23 June 2023
Accessing the nation's oral history archive just got a lot easier.
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Smiling young woman sitting on colourful fabric blocks.

Interning with the Public Engagement team

By Ella Ayto
17 May 2023
Celebrating Waitangi Day and a programme for older adults.
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A woman standing behind a table on which sit an array of ephemera items.

Surveying the Ephemera F sequence

By Bekah Jackson
20 April 2023
Working with a collection that has unique physical qualities.
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Man standing at a work desk with posters in front of him on a table.

The life and times of a National Library intern

By Ronan Speden
3 April 2023
Ronan Speden on his time as an intern at the Library.
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A man standing arms crossed between two walls of archive boxes.

Off the record | A radical life

By Jessica Moran
7 December 2022
Award-winning writer Jared Davidson talks about archiving and writing radical history.
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