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#NZHistory #Architecture #Ōtautahi
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Written and illus. by GV Hudson, an polymath/autodidact who did this in his spare time from his role as #wellington postman. I believe the publishing was also crowdfunded #kikorangi #biology #entomolgy #nzhistory
Books about Aotearoa New Zealand
The NZ Series
A non-fiction resource for general readers and schools, introducing complex subjects in concise terms.
#nzhistory #nzgeography #oratiabooks #thenzseries @philippaw.bsky.social @christchurchlib.bsky.social @thesaplingnz.bsky.social @nzsauthorswgtn.bsky.social @nzsa.bsky.social
Happy Anniversary Auckland! oratia.co.nz/product/auck...
#auckland #oratiabooks #nzhistory #aucklandhistory #aucklandanniversaryday @greaterauckland.bsky.social
Side quest mission accomplished. George Kemp was my great, great grandfather & first ‘white’ settler to die in the area. His wife Marrion died less than a year later in childbirth. My great grandfather (Richard) was only 3 at the time. #nzhistory
A group of Māori women sat outside a polling station in 1908. They are in typical Edwardian fashions, including some natty straw boater hats.
#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen
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Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan with three male cabinet ministers. She is a Māori woman wearing a bold-patterned dress. The men are all in suits.
#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as Minister of Tourism in Aotearoa / New Zealand. She's the first Māori woman to be a Cabinet minister.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Posed photo of Emmeline Freda Du Faur in her mountaineering skirt.
#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1910, Emmeline Freda Du Faur becomes the first white woman to climb Aoraki (Mount Cook) in New Zealand.
If other women climbed it earlier, their climbs were not recorded.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Congratulations Erik Olssen — 2025 New Zealand Historical Association Award for Contribution to New Zealand History. #NZHistory #HistoryMatters #history @universityofotago.bsky.social
Iriaka Rātana standing at an outdoor meeting, surrounded by men sitting in suits. She is a Māori woman with white and grey hair.
#OnThisDay, 29 Nov 1949, Iriaka Rātana is elected to the New Zealand parliament (Pāremata Aotearoa). She was the first Māori woman to become an MP. She held her seat until her retirement in 1969.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
photo of a rural polling station in 1893 including some women lined up by the door
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1893, over 90,000 women in Aotearoa New Zealand voted in parliamentary elections for the first time.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Congratulations to authors Jared Davidson and Ryan Bodman, winners at the 2025 NZHA Prizes!
• W.H. Oliver Prize (best NZ history book): Jared Davidson, 'Blood and Dirt'
• Erik Olssen Prize (best first book): Ryan Bodman, 'Rugby League in NZ'
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I can highly recommend this #NZHistory #Kikorangi #NZpol
Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' reveals how empire shaped lives in 19th-century Aotearoa and beyond.
Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...
#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
Amazing thread of #nzhistory
Thanks @br3nda.bsky.social !
#nzhistory... Rewind back before the nz company...
The first big shot at colonising Aotearoa came way back in 1825. A rich British politician, John George Lambton, sent two ships to scope out the place for resources and trade opportunities.
A wonderful little heartwarming Kiwi battler story about how a bunch of plucky misfits and ne'er do wells turned around a collapsed capitalist economy with just a little hard work, big ideas...
...and a fuckload of land confiscation.
#nzpol #toitūtetiriti #nzhistory #aonzhistory
28 October marks Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara – the national day of commemoration for the New Zealand Wars.
Explore these histories with works by Vincent O’Malley, Hazel Riseborough, Judith Binney & more:
🔗 www.bwb.co.nz/books/history
#TePutakeoteRiri #HeRaMaumahara #NZHistory #Aotearoa
Takatāpui, a Māori word that refers to an intimate companion of the same sex, was reclaimed as an identity by Māori individuals in the 80s, It is a term similar, but not synonymous, with Queer or LGBT+, & many of the individuals who id as Takatāpui also id as queer. #QHM25 #NZHistory #QueerHistory
This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
Michael Joseph Savage on the campaign trail. Ref: 1/2-051739-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
On this day in 1938 Labour was re-elected in a landslide winning 56% of the vote and 53 seats against the newly-founded National party's 40% / 25 seats. The first election Māori were provided a secret ballot the same as Pākehā voters had enjoyed since 1870! #nzpolitics #nzhistory #History
Something unexpected that I learned on my research trip last week was this: Chairman Mao was gifted a kahu huruhuru in 1957 by Ramai Te Miha Hayward & her husband, NZ pioneer filmmaker, Rudall. It was a gift of goodwill from Māori King Korokī. #nzhistory
Whina Cooper addressing the crowd at the protest. She is an older Maori woman wearing a traditional cloak over her clothes.
#OnThisDay, 13 Oct 1975, Te Rarawa leader Whina Cooper brings around 5,000 marchers to the New Zealand Parliament to present a petition signed by 60,000 people protesting ongoing Māori land alienation.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
A photograph of the cover of a 1976 School Bulletin, Gold by Kevin Lawson
And a complementary School Bulletin from 1976, Gold by Kevin Lawson #nzhistory #opshop #booksky
A photograph of the book cover Diggers, Hatters & Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes by Stevan Eldred - Grigg
A lucky #opshop find, had been on the hunt for this for a while
#nzhistory
Māori women in a conference theatre that has been set up with tables.
#OnThisDay, 25 Sept 1951, 87 women meet at the first Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora (conference for the Māori Women’s Welfare League) in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Their kaupapa? Whānau first. Wāhine strong. Māori voices independent.
True champions - building legacies that still protect and uplift NZ society today.
These wāhine made history. Our job is to protect it.
#kikorangi #NZHistory #Maori #ManaWāhine #MWWL #OnThisDay
The first committee of the Maori Women Welfare League with Whina Cooper and Mira Szazy 1951.
#NZHistory On this day 1951 the Māori Women’s Welfare League was formed.
74 years and 1000s of volunteer hours later they've built clinics, pushed te reo in schools, revived traditional crafts, led kōhanga reo, fought health inequities, backed wāhine in business and leadership
"Its apparent defeat ... turned into a win when, ..., the government eventually returned most of Takaparawhau to Ngāti Whātua – the land had remained undeveloped, and the green ban remained in force after the eviction."
#NZHistory #Aotearoa #Unions #GreenBan #NZPol
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