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  1. | NZ History

    The First World War had a seismic impact on New Zealand, reshaping the country's perception of itself and its place in the world. Women's Suffrage Petition The 1893 Women's suffrage petition — signed by more than 25,000 women, about a fifth of the entire adult European female population — helped pave the way for the passage of New Zealand's ...

  2. Recommended Websites

    These websites are highly recommended as reference sites. You will find hundreds more subject-specific sites linked from the web guides in the Hands-on history section.Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand VisitTe Ara, the award-winning online encyclopedia of New Zealand, will be a comprehensive guide to this country's natural environment, history, culture and development.

  3. About this site

    A Calendar of New Zealand history events provides short essays and links to further sources on over 500 events in New Zealand history, at least one for each day of the year. Te Akomanga and a Hands-on history section includes links to guides, external websites and other material for those who are 'doing' and teaching history.

  4. Wayback Machine

    The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include Open Library & archive-it.org .

  5. Places to start researching NZ history

    Papers Past — National Library of New Zealand. Archives New Zealand — New Zealand's public records, including government documents, maps, paintings and film records. Archives New Zealand. Links to: archives and libraries; government; historical associations; museums; universities. History-related institutions — New Zealand History

  6. Story: History

    New Zealand's human history is relatively short: it was the last habitable land mass in the world to be discovered, by the ancestors of Māori, probably in the late 13th century. Large-scale European settlement began in the 1840s, and the subsequent social, political and economic changes changed New Zealand from British colonial outpost to ...

  7. Browse NZ History

    All text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence. Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. All non-text content is subject to specific conditions. This site is produced by the Research and Publishing Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Meet the NZHistory team

  8. New Zealand's history

    Places to start researching NZ history. Search old newspapers, find archives and websites on local and national history. Military history, records and medals. Search the records and medals of New Zealanders at war and get sources for doing your own military research. Get a copy of a WW1 service record

  9. New Zealand in History

    As Polynesians discover and settle New Zealand, thought to be sometime between 950 and 1130 AD, the Moriori people are settling, possibly around the same time, the Chatham Islands, or Rekohu, a small group of islands off the coast of New Zealand.. In 1642 the first of the European explorers, Abel Janszoon Tasman from Holland, sails into New Zealand waters.

  10. Story: Te Ara

    The New Zealand government first prepared reference works for the 1940 centennial. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, was published in 1966. The Dictionary of New Zealand biography and New Zealand historical atlas were produced in the late 20th century. A proposal for a new internet-based encyclopedia was approved in 2001.