History & Archaeology

A fascinating examination of every aspect of the Roman soldier, at the height of Rome's imperial might, this highly illustrated manual gets to grip...

This classic interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's famous Book of Five Rings is explicitly intended for the martial artist-as Miyamoto Musashi origi...

'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you ...

In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both nat...

On 12 July 1863, British and colonial troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Duncan Cameron crossed Mangatawhiri stream, Waikato Maori's northern bor...

This is a book for anyone who loves Chinese black tea. Keemun is the first Chinese black tea to go abroad. In The Lady of the Camellias (1848), the...

MISHAP 1968 - Caught in a sudden violent storm, the Wahine ferry foundered after running aground on Barrett's Reef, attempting to enter Wellington ...

Summary Specs A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendar...

The Memorial Museum Passchedaele 1917's temporary exhibtion 'Passchendaele, Landscape of War' highlights the effect of the ruined landscape on the ...

This ground-breaking book explores the emergence of Te Hahi Mihinare - the Maori Anglican Church. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English mi...

What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle's definition of history as 'the biography of great men', and focused ins...

Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set apart from the Asian main...

In the 1980s, Maurice Shadbolt began to research New Zealand's part in the tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915 - research which was to lead to his st...

The Maxim gun was the first fully automated machine gun to be introduced into military service at the end of the 19th century. Gradually refined to...

True To Ireland

The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a...

Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully re...

"Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death." Th...

Emerging into history in the 8th century CE, the samurai evolved to become an aristocratic warrior elite that dominated Japanese warfare and societ...

A sumptuous full colour tribute to one of our great winemaking families. In 1916 Josip Babich aged 20 made his first wine from his own grapes at Ka...

From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a lep...

That the Blitz did not bring the UK to its knees is due, in large part, to a vast response by Civil Defence services and the British people themsel...