The Arrangement & Description team sits in the middle of Alexander Turnbull Library. Completing our tasks to help make ...

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Discover or refresh your knowledge about the many ways the National Library can support your school, including how to borrow books through our school lending service. We are offering the same webinar ...

"The story begins with the migration of ancestral peoples out of South China, some 5,000 years ago. Moving through the Pacific, these early voyagers arrived in Aotearoa early in the second millennium ...

Established in 1926. The company included: Lester Brown, Len Barnes, Grace Macdonald, Lionel Inch, Vin Wilton, Robert Mayne, Amy Woodward, Jim Cooke, Tom Forrester ...

Traces the history of the construction of the Great South Road by the military under General Cameron in the early 1860s. Places its construction within the context of campaigns in the Waikato against ...

Banana banana ; Tauatino o te inangaro ; Kurikuri ia manue tangi nei ; Te kni nei ; Taki nei au (Amarama) -- Te inu nei a faohi au ; Aue aue (Nipurahi) ; Rakahanga enua ; Kua ite o te ra ; I te pahi ...

Writing to Hoani Wiremu Hipango from Waerenga-a-hika in 1862. Died 9 Jun 1865 at Nukutauma. Ordained to Anglican deaconate by Bishop Williams in Dec 1864.

Welcome to the Arrangement & Description (A&D) team blog for 2023! This year the team farewelled Nicola Frean who had been the driving force behind Arrangement and Description at Turnbull since 2011 ...

Booklet centre spread lists the programme for the evening, compered by Philip Liner of Radio New Zealand. Other pages contain a message from the mayor Brian Elwood (with his photo), and from Eric ...

Introduction -- Te Ope Tuatahi: the first Maori contingent -- The war party sails -- The Maori contingent on Gallipoli -- Forming the New Zealand pioneer battalion -- The New Zealand pioneer battalion ...

Who are the Māori of New Zealand? How did they get here and how did they settle the country? What are the main tribal groups in New Zealand, and where are they based? The first publication to come out ...