Story: History
Page 7 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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Archives New Zealand/Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Archives New Zealand is the official guardian of New Zealand’s heritage documents, with a particular responsibility for preserving government records. In addition to information about holdings, research procedures and finding aids at National Archives, the site contains current and past online exhibitions on New Zealand history topics and gives access to the National Register of Archives and Manuscripts.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography/Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography site contains the biographies of over 3,000 New Zealanders who made their mark some time between 1769 and 1960, and ‘Our Land, Our People’, exhibitions on New Zealand history topics.
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National Library of New Zealand/Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
The National Library is responsible for collecting, maintaining and making available literature and other resources about New Zealand and the Pacific. As well providing catalogues for the library’s print, manuscript and digital collections, and a number of databases, this site gives access to digital images and objects (e.g. Timeframes, Te Waimano, Papers Past and the Ranfurly Collection) and to online exhibitions relating to New Zealand history.
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New Zealand Archaeology
The New Zealand Archaeological Association promotes research into the archaeology of New Zealand and maintains a national site recording scheme. This site contains information about the association’s activities, a little information about pre-European Māori settlement, information and images of archaeological sites, teacher resources, and other feature articles.
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newzealand.com: the official site for New Zealand travel & business
This site, which promotes New Zealand as an international tourism destination, has brief information about New Zealand people, history, culture, society and environment, together with key facts about the country.
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New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre hosts an expanding archive of digital texts and images. Its collections include the official history of New Zealand in the Second World War, selected letters of historian J. C. Beaglehole, and the print history project: historical texts and images from various archives.
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New Zealand Historic Places Trust/Pouhere Taonga
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust was established in 1954 to promote the identification and protection of New Zealand places of historical significance. As well as feature articles on the work of the Trust, this site gives access to selected articles from the Trust’s quarterly magazine, Heritage New Zealand, and the Register of Historic Places.
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NZHistory.net.nz/Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho o Aotearoa
NZHistory.net.nz is produced by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and provides information and exhibitions on New Zealand history. The site contains an extensive gallery of historical exhibitions on contact and post-European settlement topics, and links to many other New Zealand history sites.
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The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi
This government-sponsored Treaty education site contains copies of the Treaty text, a timeline, a history of the Treaty and links.
