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‘Hostilities will cease…’ – Memories of the end of World War 1

November 7, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1918, Armistice, epidemic, Great War, influenza, Le Quesnoy, Radio New Zealand, RNZ, sound, World War One, WW1, WW100, WWI

Sarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.

Comparison of Te Anakura building in 1970 and 2018

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Te Anakura: a place of treasures

July 16, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments

Access project developer Emma Richardson takes a look into the history of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Wellington building, Te Anakura, and its place within Te Aro.

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Ngā taringa hou – New ears for old voices

March 5, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments

Wellington may have enjoyed an unusually-splendid summer this year, but three Victoria University Māori Studies students have not seen a lot of the sun. They spent their break from late November until late February in the Taranaki Street offices of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. With headphones fixed to their heads they passed the summer listening to the voices of tūpuna, recorded many decades before they were born.

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Waitangi Kōrero During Sesqui 1990

February 5, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments

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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Recording the Return of the Māori Battalion – Te Hokinga Mai o Te Rōpū Rua Tekau mā Waru

January 23, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments

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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A Most Unusual Christmas

December 19, 2017January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments

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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Remembering New Zealand’s “darkest day”

October 9, 2017January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Gallipoli, sound preservation, World War One, WW1, WWI

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.