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

Discover or refresh your knowledge about the many ways the National Library can support your school, including how to borrow ...

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 ...

A collection of traditional Māori stories and legends from various iwi developed as a resource for people learning te reo. Notes Hinemoa & Tūtānekai -- Ngā ahi a Tamatea = Tamatea -- Kupe -- Rangitoto ...

Recounts the history of the Quinn's Arcade (Quinn's Arcadia) and the Waimate Regent Theatre, both cinemas in Waimate. Looks at the activities of the Waimate Regent Theatre Trust in purchasing and ...

Eulogises the late Ngati Kahungunu leader, who died aged 77 at his home in Napier. Recalls his accomplishments, including his investiture in Nov 2005 as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ...

"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 ...

Evokes the tragedy of a widow farmer in Takaka losing three sons at the Battle of Passchendaele within one week. Briefly profiles each of the four sons who served at the Western Front ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.