History won't be re-written, but it will be re-learned and taught under the new New Zealand history curriculum.
The history of New Zealand needs to be rewritten to include the voices and stories of Māori and other minority cultures.
A brief history of New Zealand on a pin
“When you're a descendant, you have to accept your ancestors. The good and the bad.” — Ross Calman.
Always wanted to own a one-off vintage photo of Sam Hunt? Maurice Gee? Joy Cowley? Here's your chance.
A brief history of New Zealand on a pin
Disembodied hands and a "confused first-time Tinder user" from 1852 feature in a new book showcasing NZ's colonial-era photography.
“He was a born adventurer. Neil Armstrong-astronaut class. He was also a Bear Grylls-type survivalist — though his dramas were for real, and not invented for TV.” — Lloyd Ashton on Phillip Tapsell.
Napier-based lawyer with a passion for education and an unswerving belief in its capacity to make positive changes in our society Roimata Smail speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her sixteen year career in human rights and public law, specialising in discrimination against MÄori. Alongside the law, Roimata has created some wonderful interactive teaching aids, the lastest of which help primary school age children learn about Aotearoa's history and Tiriti o Waitangi. All done in her spare time, to help teachers plug a gap in school resources,and coming as the Minister for Education Chris Hipkins announced New Zealand History will be compulsory in schools from next year. The new Wai Ako resources add to her online introductory Reo MÄori resource for primary schools complementing ukele waita which help children learn te reo. Roimata came up with this idea to help her husband Sam, who is a primary school teacher, when he was looking for resources to get more te reo in his classroom.
Always wanted to own a one-off vintage photo of Sam Hunt? Maurice Gee? Joy Cowley? Here's your chance.
Take a look back at one of the biggest land occupation's in Aotearoa's history, after the death of the kaumātua who spearheaded it, Joe Hawke.
A portrait of Auckland in the 1980s, when it was "hellbent on destroying its history one building at a time"
“Whina and the other League women are remembered for ‘assaulting the ears of Government Departments’, particularly on issues related to housing and mortgages.” — Dr Aroha Harris.
While tracing his own family’s journey from Ireland to Aotearoa New Zealand, Richard Shaw encountered how much ‘selective amnesia’ about the colonial past still shapes our lives today.
There are some whose work has changed Aotearoa. Such is the case for Ivan and Oliver Sutherland.
The current lack of national support in our legal frameworks for cultural landscapes represents the ongoing struggle to address Te Āo Māori, writes Nicola Short.
On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake shook Christchurch, killing 185 people. One hundred and fifteen of those people were in the CTV building - a structure that should never have been built.
From the velocipede to the penny farthing, the Raleigh 20, Loline, Chopper and the BMX - millions of bicycles have been manufactured in New Zealand over the past 150 years. Cycling historian, author and all-round bike enthusiast, Jonathan Kennett, has written a history of locally made bikes, and industry that once thrived in every New Zealand city. The Bikes We Built highlights 60 bikes still in existence today, and the people and stories behind them. Jonathan Kennett says it's a celebration of kiwi ingenuity and passion which continues to this day.
“Once arrogantly dismissed as journeys of luck — the aimless drifting of incompetent mariners — these voyages are now rightly adulated as ‘among the greatest acts of voyage and discovery in world history.’” — Kennedy Warne on 'Polynesia:900–1600' by Madi Williams.
From next year, the curriculum will replace one long criticised as patchy, insufficient and Eurocentric.
Sally Blundell reviews a unique record of New Zealand life
Matt Morris's passion for sustainability and gardening served as the catalyst for a PhD on Christchurch's extensive and proud green-fingered history. He has now broadened that out in his new book Common Ground - garden histories of Aotearoa, which explores the ways in which cultural meanings have been embedded in the land through the way New Zealanders have gardened over the centuries.This includes tales of the earliest Polynesian settlers bringing with them seeds and cuttings, 'Dig for Victory' efforts, and how home gardening has fared across the decades. His focus is on land, planted and cultivated and maintained by ordinary people, rather than the gardens of the wealthy.
“The Crown profoundly regrets its horrific and needless acts of war and raupatu, which have caused you and your hapū inter-generational suffering.” — Crown apology to Ngāti Maniapoto.
“You can’t be Pākehā and believe that you’re not personally responsible for the colonial oppression of Indigenous peoples. No matter who your ancestors are.” — Leah Bell.
“These places are not passive backdrops to human action — they are agents, participants, characters in the dramas that unfold across their volcanic surfaces.” — Kennedy Warne reviews 'Shifting Grounds' by Lucy Mackintosh.
See early nineteenth-century Aotearoa/New Zealand like never before Photography arrived in Aotearoa in 1848, only two decades after its invention. How did these ‘portraits in a machine’ reveal Māori and Pākehā to themselves and each other? Were the first photographs ‘a good likeness’ or were they tricksters? What stories do they capture of the changing landscape of Aotearoa? A new book is giving us a glimpse into some of the country’s earliest known photographs. Accompanied by essays from history experts, A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa (Auckland University Press, rrp $65) features startlingly clear portraits and landscapes that are
People of central Auckland: September 18 is the day to look at your feet and honour Ngāti Whātua for sharing the land beneath them.
Emmy Rākete responds to a profound new vision of Tāmaki Makaurau, shortlisted for tomorrow's Ockham awards
A Kiwi kitchen isn't really complete without a copy of the timeless Edmonds Cookbook. The family behind the iconic Christchurch baking powder company Edmonds lovingly shares its history in the new book Sure to Rise.
Video | 'You're in a dangerous place here,' Mike Smith warned a group of teenagers. 'I'm about to drop this tree, and it’s gonna fall on your car.'
“No one was jealous when we had one-quarter of an acre. No one was jealous when we had the city sewer pipe spewing tiko and baby foetuses and amputated arms and legs right in front of our meeting house.” — Ngarimu Blair.
Searching for Traces of the Late Great Matiu Rata.
Angela Wanhalla and Professor Lachy Paterson from the University of Otago are studying the often overlooked history of the impact of the Second World War on Maori society at home in New Zealand. With 3,600 Maori seeing active service on the battlefields of North Africa, Italy and elsewhere, a much bigger 'army' of 29,000 people (almost one-third of the total Maori population of the time) were making less heralded but no less valuable contributions to the war effort on the Home Front. From the importance of sport, to community and cultural activities, and economic opportunities, the war had a profound and long lasting impact on Maori history and experience.
The meltdown in the relationship between the key players can be charted in an extraordinary exchange of correspondence.
“The thing about the big beats of history is that they’re often signs or reminders that we must now reimagine the society we live in. Momentous history requires momentous change.” — Tainui Stephens.
1News political producer Lillian Hanly celebrates the life and stunning photographic archive of her 90-year-old grandmother.
For decades, a rundown house in Christchurch secretly harboured a New Zealand literary treasure. This is the story of the reclusive hoarder who hid it, the woman who wrote it, and the man who rediscovered it.
The first newspapers published in New Zealand were printed by Samuel Revans a month after he arrived in Port Nicholson (Wellington).
The great painter Dame Robin White on her Ngāti Awa father
The South African War is largely forgotten or remembered simply as a warm-up to two world wars. Bruce Munro talks to historian Nigel Robson about...
As a sociologist of education, Dr Joanna Kidman travels the country to learn about how the New Zealand Wars impacted papa kainga. She shares her latest work and research on Te Ahi Kaa.
Four writers on the museums and museum pieces they love most.
The last remaining member of the 28th Māori Battalion says he dedicates his knighthood to all those he served alongside in the war.
'The first day I walked onto Takaparawhau, I had a feeling of awe... Ordinary people taking on the government just was not done in those times.'
Hundreds of people are expected to gather at a marae in eastern Taranaki today to hear the Crown deliver a long-awaited apology to the people of Ngāti Maru.
“These places are not passive backdrops to human action — they are agents, participants, characters in the dramas that unfold across their volcanic surfaces.” — Kennedy Warne reviews 'Shifting Grounds' by Lucy Mackintosh.
How a sustained campaign of protest against Apartheid led to the cancellation of a much-anticipated rugby tour.
Jim Schuster works with Heritage New Zealand as a marae restorer around New Zealand and the world, and in the latter category there's one particularly close to his heart. Meeting house Hinemihi has sat in the grounds of Clandon Estate in Surrey England since the 1890s.
“The bylines of some entries are so unique, so remarkable, as to make you marvel that such a person could exist — and then to wonder why it has taken until now for their stories to become known to the wider public.” — Kennedy Warne on 'Tāngata Ngāi Tahu'.
The day is a chance to think about how Te Tiriti has shaped Aotearoa – and that doesn't have to stop just because the festivals are cancelled.
