New Zealand history
Our stories, told through the audiovisual records we hold in the collection.
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22 June 2017
The home side featured legendary New Zealand rugby names like George Nepia and Cliff Porter.
20 February 2017
One great thing about working at an audiovisual archive is helping people connect with the stories and faces of their past
13 February 2017
Historic figures have been brought to life in a new exhibition of 23 compelling portraits, accompanied by archival sound recordings from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga.
10 February 2017
Through sound recordings, Sarah Johnston looks at the lives of New Zealand's early Chinese community.
7 December 2016
This is how United States President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, described the 7th of December 1941.
9 November 2016
A look back at New Zealand's relationship to Presidents of the United States of America
28 October 2016
This Saturday is the 80th anniversary of national commercial radio in New Zealand, which started with station 1ZB Auckland on 29 October 1936.
16 October 2016
Eighty years ago today New Zealander Jean Batten became the first person to fly from Britain to New Zealand.
6 October 2016
Blenheimer, Marque Vue, Cold Duck. If you are over a certain age those names of early New Zealand wines may bring back a few memories.
12 September 2016
15 September 2016 marked the centenary of the New Zealand Division’s entry into fighting on the Somme in Northern France in 1916.
1 September 2016
This Tuesday was the 145th birthday of Lord Ernest Rutherford, who was born near Nelson in 1871.
11 May 2016
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision recently acquired a wonderful set of cast photographs from the RNZ drama department.
24 March 2016
The Waikato River at Tūrangawaewae was a hive of activity last weekend, with thousands of people turning out to watch and take part in the annual Regatta.
18 February 2016
2YA’s Tītahi Bay Transmitter Opened in 1937.
10 February 2016
The story of our favourite fruit and the huge export industry that has grown up around it.
17 December 2015
Audio Conservator Alex Porter is currently working on a project to digitise and describe the New Zealand Broadcasting Service Mobile Unit Collection.
19 August 2015
Rebecca Hayter shares her memories of the aftermath of the Rainbow Warrior bombing.
8 May 2015
On the 8th of May 1915, New Zealand forces on Gallipoli were involved in the disastrous charge across a piece of land known as “The Daisy Patch.”
24 April 2015
RNZ are feature a 1949 sound recording by the only New Zealander to win a Victoria Cross in the Gallipoli Campaign, Aucklander Cyril Bassett.
5 February 2015
Sir Apirana Ngata (Ngāti Porou) delivered a strong message to Pākehā New Zealand when he spoke at the 1940 Treaty Centennial celebrations at Waitangi.
14 November 2014
Historian Lindsay Alexander tells the incredible tale of a 1930s documentary around harpoon whales the old way.
4 July 2014
Ria Apostolidis is a Costumier based in Wellington. She’s inspired, surrounded and involved in the creative arts.
23 June 2014
A descendant of "The Gingernut Lady" sends us a beautiful poem and photograph of their inspirational great grandmother.
22 May 2014
Mrs Barnard’s original recipe made a LOT of biscuits for the troops. We halved the quantities and still produced between 60 and 100 biscuits!
22 May 2014
A 1965 radio interview held in the collection of Ngā Taonga has shed light on the home-baking sent by New Zealand women to our soldiers during World War I.
15 April 2014
The hunt to try and put names to the voices of five Kiwi Gallipoli veterans recorded in the 1969 radio documentary ANZA.
12 March 2014
Can you help us identify the voices of the five unidentified Gallipoli veterans who feature in this radio documentary?
16 January 2014
Read about some of Australasia's earliest computer games and the project to keep their memory alive.
