At this month’s Friends of the Turnbull event, Dr Jennifer Ashton will discuss two former convicts, Charlotte Badger and George Bruce, who arrived at the Bay of Islands in 1806 and lived under the ...

Are you new to family history research? Our Starting with family history will help you work out what questions you want to answer, and give you some tips to start finding your family in the Library's ...

It's our last meeting and almost the end of the 2024 school year, so let's celebrate! We'll toast your successes and achievements from the year, have some fun and wrap up with our last kōrero about ...

Explore teaching resources, images and books to generate conversations about the signing of te Tiriti and Waitangi Day with your class. Te Tiriti o Waitangi | the Treaty of Waitangi is significant to ...

Trish Beamsley reflects on how manaakitanga and tino rangatiratanga have become central to assisting iwi to access the Library's te ao Māori collections, most recently a group from Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti ...

Historic copies of iconic magazine the New Zealand Listener will be making their way to the Papers Past website following an agreement between the National Library and magazine owner Are Media. The ...

Read about how Papers Past has helped change the way people research newspapers including tracking wildlife migration routes through to the complex world-building of novels such as 'The Luminaries'.

Date: [1930-1942] From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers Reference: 73-128-087 Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes part of report on censorship; notes on ...

Promoted Lieutenant in 1828 and commander in 1837. Served in HMS Tribune 1855 on the Pacific Station. Transferred to HMS Bittern in 1858.

Date: 1989 From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions Reference: PAColl-9545-28 Description: Photographs of Downstage Theatre productions staged in 1989. Comprises: Publicity ...