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The history of rugby league in New Zealand began as a humble story of working-class communities and a popular ball game that ...

"The Dowse Art Museum is pleased to present this collection of contemporary earthenware pottery from the Sasak women potters of Lombok, Indonesia, who have worked for the past four years with the ...

From 1846 onwards, a national force formed from various militia as the first national force, originally to combat Maori 'hostiles' and to keep civil order. (The Dictionary of New Zealand English, ...

Rowan Light offers an historian’s perspective on the contested remembrance of the past in recent public debates — its ...

Location somewhere in the vicinity of Jerusalem. It was one of the pre First World War Jewish settlements established in Palestine. At the time of the British advance on, and capture of Jerusalem in ...

The earliest letter acquired by the Library, comprising four pages, is dated 7 September 1824 and was written to the colonial ...

Join guided tours of our latest exhibitions ‘A child of the sun: Katherine Mansfield’s last year’ and City Gallery’s ...

Civil servant. Born in Dunedin, became Permanent Head of the Dept of Justice in 1949-1955; Controller-General of Police, 1955-1958; Chairman of Licensing Control Commission, 1960-1971, and of Trade ...

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