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Latest episodes

• Writing Mr Ward’s map

  May 4, 2026 · 53 min

  On Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at the National Library, historian Elizabeth Cox spoke about her new book Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street. In 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It…

• Making ‘A Rather Queer Cuba Street’ with AI

  August 8, 2025 · 52 min

  On 6th August 2025 at National Library, Gareth Watkins and Dr Roger Smith from PrideNZ and Walk Tours NZ presented their work using off-the-shelf AI software to bring to life their oral history recordings of Cuba St, Wellington New…

• Rewind: The Craft of Historical Storytelling in Podcasts

  June 6, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

  In this Public History Talk recorded at the National Library on 4 June 2025, podcast producers William Ray (RNZ) and Kirsten Johnstone (Popsock Media) explored the art of creating captivating history podcasts, sharing storytelling and…

• The financial colonisation of Aotearoa

  March 25, 2025 · 55 min

  In this podcast, Catherine Comyn reframes the financial colonisation of Aotearoa — a history of the joint stock company, a speculative London property market that romanticised the distant lands of indigenous peoples, and the calculated use…

• The pain in Spain: Writing Spanish Civil War history in Aotearoa

  February 26, 2025 · 51 min

  In this podcast, Mark Derby talks about his recent book Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly, published by Massey University Press/University of Nebraska Press. Frontline Surgeon and related publications record New…

• Whakarongo ki ngā Taonga Tuku Iho: Listening to Taonga Held in French Museums

  December 5, 2024 · 1 hr 0 min

  Dr Lisa Renard has a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology / Museum Studies Docteure en anthropologie sociale et culturelle / Muséographe and is currently the Fyssen Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Auckland. This talk was…

• Small stories of colonisation: An uncomfortable settler family history

  September 24, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min

  In this podcast, Professor Richard Shaw whose great-grandfather took part in the 1881 invasion of Parihaka pā and farmed land taken from Taranaki iwi, discusses the entanglement of the small histories of settler families with the large…

• An Open Conversation on a Secret History

  November 15, 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

  The new book Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900-1956 by Richard S Hill and Steven Loveridge (Auckland University Press, 2023) opens up the ‘secret world’ of security intelligence during a period in which…