
Archives New Zealand holds the Active Service...

On 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand flight TE901 crashed on the slopes of Mt Erebus, Antarctica, with the loss of...

The Treaty of Waitangi is not a single large sheet of paper but a group of nine documents: seven on...

When Governor Glasgow signed the Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing...

The ‘Blue Books’ detailed statistical information from New Zealand’s early Colonial period (1840-...

The Declaration of Independence of the Northern Chiefs
On 28 October 1835, British Resident James...

This website has been developed to showcase a fraction of the almost 12 kilometres of records held in the...

This exhibition aims to highlight items in the collections held at the Dunedin Regional Office of Archives New...

Archives New Zealand holds around 21,000 reels of film and 1000 videotapes. The majority of these are from the New...

This gallery brings a glimpse of history to light by showcasing some of the historical material the Auckland...