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  • 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…

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  • 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…

  • Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’: Jared Davidson

    October 27, 2023 · 44 min

    Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. From 1814 onwards, the unfree work of prisoners was used to forge roads, ports, buildings, harbour defences and other public works across New Zealand and…

  • Adoption: From severance and secrecy to connection and openness

    September 20, 2023 · 1 hr 28 min

    In this month's Public History Talk, the authors of two recently published books discussed the profound impact of closed stranger adoption in New Zealand and the drive for change. Closed stranger adoption under the 1955 Adoption Act, still…

  • Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay

    September 7, 2023 · 59 min

    Paul Diamond's book, Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay, examines the startling ‘Whanganui Affair’ of 1920, when the mayor Charles Mackay, shot a young gay man, D'Arcy Cresswell. The affair and subsequent events reveal the…

  • Te Motunui Epa – making history from the underground

    August 17, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min

    For more than 150 years, five carved panels that once formed the back wall of a pātaka, slept in a small swamp just north of Waitara. The carvings, which uri of Taranaki now call the Motunui Epa, emerged from their long sleep in 1971…

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