History

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• Disasters (5)
• Early Settlers (13)
• Historic Places (29)
• Maori (5)
• Maritime (13)

• Military (30)
• NZ Exploration (13)
• Political (2)
• Railways (23)
• Treaty of Waitangi (2)
• Women's Suffrage (3)

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• New Zealand Heritage Consultants   (www.nzheritage.com)

  An archaeological and historical consulting firm that offer a wide range of services, in assessment, excavation, survey, heritage inventory, historical research, photography and film consulting.

• New Zealand History   (www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/new_zealand_history)

  Original articles and links to a number of topics on New Zealand history.

• New Zealand History and Legal Links   (www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/4038/histlaw.htm)

  Links associated with general New Zealand history, Treaty of Waitangi, local history etc.

• NZ Australia Connections Research Centre   (www.nzac.canterbury.ac.nz)

  Explores the New Zealand and Australia relationship on political, intellectual, cultural, social, and economic levels from the 1880s to 2000.

• NZHistory.net   (www.nzhistory.net.nz)

  Biographical essays that represent a selection of the approximately 3,000 essays which appear in the five volumes of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

• NZine: Growing Up In New Zealand   (www.nzine.co.nz/features/guinz25-50_part1.html)

  Want to know what it was like growing up in New Zealand between 1925 and 1950? These articles have excellent information and fascinating photographs.

• Papers Past   (www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz)

  A site containing digital images of selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. Currently, they have over one million pages from 41 publications.

• Remembering   (www.remembering.co.nz)

  An extensive Web based memorial system for deceased New Zealanders, preserving precious moments forever. You can archive family photographs, electronic memorabilia, video and audio.

• Routeburn Milford 1946   (www.routeburn1946.orcon.net.nz)

  Photographs and diary of a trip over the Routeburn to Milford December 1946-January 1947.

• Something Special About Glenview   (www.hpl.govt.nz/index.asp?pageID=2145828893)

  The Glenview community oral history project.

• Southern People   (southern-people.otago.ac.nz)

  A dictionary of Otago Southland biography.

• Taranaki Historic Speedway   (www.historicspeedway.co.nz)

  The Taranaki Historic Speedway Association was formed in 2002 with the aim of recording the history and preserving the vehicles and records of speedway racing in the province of Taranaki in New Zealand.

• Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand (www.teara.govt.nz)

  Meaning ‘the pathway’, Te Ara Encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery through interlinking text and image trails.

• Technical History   (www.techhistory.co.nz)

  A history of technological innovation in New Zealand.

• The Caversham Project   (caversham.otago.ac.nz)

  What makes New Zealand society - or any society - unique? The Caversham Project was started 30 years ago to answer that question by using systematic methods and comparative analysis.

• The Hamilton Public Library Youth Oral History Project   (www.nzdl.org/~nzdl/ohist/intro.html)

  A project which focused on Waikato teenage experiences spanning 1930 to 1960.

• The Opal File   (www.netti.fi/~makako/mind/opal.txt)

  A secret history of New Zealand and Australia.

• Timeframes   (timeframes.natlib.govt.nz)

  Timeframes is an online database of heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, at the National Library of New Zealand.

• Tokirima   (www.tokirima.com)

  News and history from the Tokirima Community Assoc in King Country. Includes a new Tokirima School Web site and an expanded history section.

• Tokoroa History   (www.downtown.co.nz/SouthWaikato/History.html)

  History of Tokoroa including origin of its name, sawmilling, the railway and forestry.

• Wellington Brief History   (www.wellington.govt.nz/services/archives/services/services.html)

  The earliest name for Wellington, from Maori legend, is Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui.

• Wellington City Council Heritage Building Inventory   (www.wellington.govt.nz/plans/policies/builtheritage/)

  Contains information on nearly 500 of the heritage buildings listed in Wellington's District Plan

• Westernhouse Bed and Breakfast   (westernhouse.co.nz)

  Historic homestead built in the gold rush days as a hotel and accommodation house and now a cosy bed and breakfast.

• Whangarei Museum   (www.whangareimuseum.co.nz)

  Northlands Whangarei Museum houses a nationally significant collection of Maori and early European artefacts.

• Whitianga History   (www.thepeninsula.co.nz/whitianga/history.htm)

  A quick history of Whitianga.