History & Archaeology

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

The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation's history. Fought between the Crown a...

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

Pirates: Fact and Fiction

From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for...

'Art Arktis' explores the fragility and variety of a majestic, untouched world through a collection of fine-art photography. Dietmar Baum and Tini ...

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...

For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwrite...

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

Tower Bridge is one of London's most recognisable landmarks. Visited by some 830,000 sightseers every year it is famous the world over as an icon o...

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...

What are the differences between the English and the French bulldogs? Is the German shepherd an ancient breed? Why is the Saint Bernard always depi...

The Edges of Empires is a captivating and intimate account of New Zealand in the 1850s. Paul Moon has shone a powerful light on this previously obs...

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...