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91 EpisodenMaking ‘A Rather Queer Cuba Street’ with AI
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 s...
Rewind: The Craft of Historical Storytelling in Podcasts
In this Public History Talk recorded at the National Library on 4 June 2025, podcast producers William Ray (RNZ) and Kirsten Johnstone (Popsock Media)...
The financial colonisation of Aotearoa
In this podcast, Catherine Comyn reframes the financial colonisation of Aotearoa — a history of the joint stock company, a speculative London property...
The pain in Spain: Writing Spanish Civil War history in Aotearoa
In this podcast, Mark Derby talks about his recent book Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly, published by Massey University P...
Whakarongo ki ngā Taonga Tuku Iho: Listening to Taonga Held in French Museums
Dr Lisa Renard has a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology / Museum Studies Docteure en anthropologie sociale et culturelle / Muséographe and is c...
Small stories of colonisation: An uncomfortable settler family history
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,...
An Open Conversation on a Secret History
The new book Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900-1956 by Richard S Hill and Steven Loveridge (Auckland University Press, 2023) ope...
Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’: Jared Davidson
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 r...
Adoption: From severance and secrecy to connection and openness
In this month's Public History Talk, the authors of two recently published books discussed the profound impact of closed stranger adoption in New Zeal...
Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay
Paul Diamond's book, Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay, examines the startling ‘Whanganui Affair’ of 1920, when the mayor Charles Mackay, sh...
Te Motunui Epa – making history from the underground
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, wh...
‘An overview of New Zealand’s radical right tradition’: Matthew Cunningham
In seeking to understand the terrorist attacks of March 2019, several commentators observed the similarities with the murder of an elderly Chinese man...
Archives in Place: Deep Histories in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
In this podcast, Dr Lucy Mackintosh discusses aspects of her recently published book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Br...
Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station: Redmer Yska and Cherie Jacobson in conversation
Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand author of international renown. Her short stories and poetry have been translated into more than 25 languages an...
Musicians, Myths and Manifestos
What can popular music tell us about a country and its culture?
As the 2023 Lilburn Research Fellow, Nick Bollinger is looking at ways in which...
Solidarity and the Right to Strike
Cybèle Locke’s recently published biography of Bill Andersen, Comrade, examines labour activism, communism and social change, from the 1930s until the...
Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture
Brilliant, hardworking and creative, women architects have made many significant contributions to the built environment, creativity and community of A...
New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT) is a remarkable organisation that has represented New Zealand for more than 75 years.
A new book, New Zea...
A Biography of Lake Tūtira
This talk sketches Lake Tūtira’s history from formation to today. Historian Jonathan West will follow in the traces of Herbert Guthrie Smith, whose ob...
Women Will Rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter
It's over 40 years since the Working Women's Charter was adopted as policy by the New Zealand Federation of Labour. The 16-clause Charter demanded rig...
Mahuru Māori: Māni Dunlop and Jamie Tahana
Māni Dunlop (Ngāpuhi) and Jamie Tahana (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Makino, Te Arawa) are journalists and national broadcasters who actively champion te reo M...
Shifting perspectives about colonial conflict: The Wairau Affray and the Battle of Boulcott’s Farm
Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. She is int...
With the Boys Overseas: radio listening during World War II and New Zealand’s first broadcast war correspondents
In the 1940s radio played a central role in the life of the New Zealand household as a source of news and entertainment. Sound historian Sarah Johnsto...
Learning in and from primary schools: Teaching Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories at Years 1 to 6
In September 2019, Hon Chris Hipkins announced Aotearoa New Zealand's histories would be taught in all schools and kura from 2022 (later extended to 2...
‘There was no honour in it’: Two aspects of New Zealand’s military history
Please note: This talk contains material that may be distressing to some listeners, including the discussions of war crimes. If you wish to skip this...
The Platform: the radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers
In this talk, Melani Anae, Associate Professor in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland discusses aspects of her recent book, The Platform: th...
Crossing the lines: the story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in WW2
In this talk author Brent Coutts discusses his recently published book, Crossing the Lines, a history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in the Second...
Reflecting on the value of social media as a history-research tool
In this talk, historian Ryan Bodman explores the value of social media as a 21st century history-research tool. Over the past five years, Ryan has bee...
Dissenting Voices – New Zealand and the South African War 1899–1902
In this talk, Nigel Robson, author of Our first foreign war (Massey University Press, 2021), examines opposition within New Zealand to the South Afric...
Inside the Bubble
Inside the Bubble : Kei Roto i te Miru is a collection of human stories recorded during Covid-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand. Oral historians wor...
Kei roto i te miru: inside the bubble
What happens when a pandemic hits and the country is locked down? How can we help keep New Zealanders connected?
In collaboration with Sue Berma...
‘Palmy Proud’? Audience and Approach in Writing the History of a Provincial City
In this Public History Talk, co-editor and a writer for City at the Centre: A History of Palmerston North Margaret Tennant will discuss the dilemmas f...
Tamihana Te Rauparaha’s life of Te Rauparaha
‘He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui’ is a 50,000-word account of Te Rauparaha’s life written by his son Tamihana Te Rauparaha in the lat...
Te Mana O Te Reo Māori
Today, te reo Māori is recognised as an important part of New Zealand culture and identity. But things were not always so hopeful for the language. By...
Unpacking the Suitcase
When German-Jewish refugees arrived in New Zealand in the 1930s fleeing Hitler’s Europe, they brought everything they could from their former homes: f...
Māori women and the armed forces in WWII
Angela Wanhalla (Kāi Tahu), is an associate professor in the History Programme, University of Otago. She teaches and writes about New Zealand history...
Memorials, names and ethical remembering
How do we remember the past? What place do colonial memorials have in public spaces? How can we better represent diverse histories in the landscape?
‘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 objects that fill the recent pu...
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 protracted industrial dispute in N...
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, wehi and wana, inherent to Ma...