The blog of New Zealand’s Audiovisual Archive
Waitangi Day has often been a time for powerful oratory. Here’s an example from New Zealand’s 150th Anniversary celebrations in 1990, made on Waitangi Day by Bishop Whakahuihui Vercoe, with a little scene-setting commentary by Hēnare Te Ua.
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The sound recordings made at pōwhiri in January 1946 to welcome home the men of the (28) Māori Battalion, are the focus of a new online exhibition launched this week by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Te Hokinga Mai o Te Rōpū Rua Tekau mā Waru.
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Experiences of Christmas in New Zealand differ hugely throughout the years. Where you were, and sometimes who you were meant you might not always have the classic Kiwi barbecue! Sound archivist Sarah Johnston has picked out a few of the more unusual Christmases recorded in our archives.
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Commemorations will be held around New Zealand and at Ypres in France this week to mark the centenary of what has been called “our darkest day”, when 843 New Zealanders were killed in just a few hours on the morning of the 12th of October 1917, near Passchendaele during World War I.
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By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) With the general election
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By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) New Zealand’s infamous
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By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The New Zealand dollar
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By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The first test between
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By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The Plunket Society turned 110
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– By Lawrence Wharerau (Kaiwhakataki: Programme Coordinator, Māori, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) I have an affinity with Northland –
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