Ranked #1
The Māori War Effort at Home and Abroad 1917
The Māori War Effort at Home and Abroad 1917
One hundred years ago in June 1917, the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion was toiling in the war torn environment around Mes... Read more
8 Jun 2017
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29mins
Ranked #2
Wairoa Lockout: an oral history
Wairoa Lockout: an oral history
Since 2010, the small town of Wairoa on the East Coast of New Zealand has been at the centre of the most bitter and prot... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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39mins
Ranked #3
100 years of the Tararua Tramping Club
100 years of the Tararua Tramping Club
The Tararua Tramping Club (TTC) was founded in 1919. At that time, most people in New Zealand viewed tramping as an odd ... Read more
3 Jul 2019
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45mins
Ranked #4
This Mortal Boy
This Mortal Boy
In a career that spans more than 30 books, time as a librarian, radio producer and screenwriter, Wellington writer Dame ... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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39mins
Ranked #5
Pūkana: moments in Māori performance
Pūkana: moments in Māori performance
From Porgy and Bess to haka, to Elsdon Best and Tuini Ngāwai, Pūkana will range far and wide to give a sense of the ihi,... Read more
11 Sep 2019
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18mins
Ranked #6
‘Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance’
‘Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance’
In this talk, authors Stephanie Gibson, Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns will provide insights into the stories and o... Read more
4 Mar 2020
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42mins
Ranked #7
The Hidden Women of the Public Stage
The Hidden Women of the Public Stage
In our 50th episode, ‘The Hidden Women of the Public Stage: Women in New Zealand orchestras at the turn of the twentieth... Read more
1 May 2019
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49mins
Ranked #8
My Body, My Business
My Body, My Business
In this presentation, oral historian, writer and editor Caren Wilton talks about using oral history – ‘history from belo... Read more
3 Apr 2019
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32mins
Ranked #9
Ocean: tales of voyaging and encounter that defined New Zealand
Ocean: tales of voyaging and encounter that defined New Zealand
New Zealand, an island nation, the sea surrounds us. Both barrier and highway, it was the only way for people, goods and... Read more
6 Mar 2019
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31mins
Ranked #10
The Saving of Old St Paul’s
The Saving of Old St Paul’s
Soon after the opening of Old St Paul’s church in Mulgrave Street, Wellington, in 1866, Charles Abraham, the first Angl... Read more
7 Nov 2018
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31mins
Ranked #11
The tragedy of the SS Talune and the 1918 influenza pandemic
The tragedy of the SS Talune and the 1918 influenza pandemic
In October 1918 the SS Talune was permitted to leave Auckland bound for Fiji and Polynesia, even though the ship's maste... Read more
4 Oct 2018
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40mins
Ranked #12
Polly Plum and the first wave of feminism
Polly Plum and the first wave of feminism
As we celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage, it's time to re-evaluate Polly Plum, once described as ‘a highly controve... Read more
1 Aug 2018
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41mins
Ranked #13
‘Researching kindergarten: the endeavours of women for the play of children’
‘Researching kindergarten: the endeavours of women for the play of children’
In this Public History Talk about an iconic kiwi institution, two historians of early childhood education present the ou... Read more
4 Jul 2018
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35mins
Ranked #14
‘The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, redux’
‘The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, redux’
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography was originally published in five print volumes between 1990 and 2000. It compris... Read more
6 Jun 2018
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37mins
Ranked #15
Jazzy Nerves, Aching Feet, and Foxtrots: New Zealand’s Jazz Age
Jazzy Nerves, Aching Feet, and Foxtrots: New Zealand’s Jazz Age
Douglas Lilburn Research Fellow, Dr Aleisha Ward explores some of the many facets of ‘jazz’ in New Zealand’s Jazz Age. T... Read more
2 May 2018
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42mins
Ranked #16
How does a city make a writer?
How does a city make a writer?
Redmer Yska is a Wellington based writer and historian, and is author to many New Zealand history works. Redmer presents... Read more
11 Apr 2018
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29mins
Ranked #17
Māori Women, Politics and Petitions in the 19th Century
Māori Women, Politics and Petitions in the 19th Century
Dr Angela Wanhalla teaches in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago, Dunedin. This presen... Read more
4 Apr 2018
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39mins
Ranked #18
The Great War for New Zealand
The Great War for New Zealand
The Great War for New Zealand tells the story of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. War in the Waikato in 186... Read more
1 Nov 2017
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37mins
Ranked #19
Counting redcoats: Who were the imperial soldiers serving in New Zealand in the 1860s?
Counting redcoats: Who were the imperial soldiers serving in New Zealand in the 1860s?
In this episode, Charlotte Macdonald and Rebecca Lenihan will discuss the development of a database of men serving in th... Read more
4 Oct 2017
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47mins
Ranked #20
The Broken Decade: 1928 - 39 by Malcom McKinnon
The Broken Decade: 1928 - 39 by Malcom McKinnon
In this presentation, Malcolm McKinnon considers the significance of the year 1932 in New Zealand’s history. Keith Sincl... Read more
6 Sep 2017
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38mins