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… a lecture he had given that year, Suggestions for a history of the origin and migrations of the Māori people , …
Type: Biography
… Throughout most of New Zealand’s musical history there have been attempts at composing for opera as … by Percy Flynn, and in 1920 staged Marama: the mere and the Maori maid (words by H. S. B. Ribbands, music by Archie Don) …
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Part of story: Opera and musical theatre
… of New Plymouth, with a 2013 population of 6,483. History Waitara has been settled for hundreds of years. Some …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… major informants for his six volume compilation The ancient history of the Māori (Wellington, 1887–90). In January 1890 …
Type: Biography
… historical work of this generation was Keith Sinclair ’s A history of New Zealand (1959). Its epilogue, ‘The search for … the rights of the land, so forget the traditions of the Maori race, a people who recognised in it something more … be said to have invented the discipline of environmental history and Tutira is an epic masterpiece of non-fiction …
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Part of story: Non-fiction
… encased in netting, are especially prized. Signs of history What washes up has changed over time. From the …
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Part of story: Beachcombing
… since 1975 – the longest break in activity in its recorded history. Its steam vents have temporarily cooled, suggesting …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… History The CBD was part of a central wedge of the isthmus …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… described by Richard Owen, director of the Natural History Museum in London. When Mantell visited London in …
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Part of story: Geological exploration
… than as an oppressive entity. Pākehā New Zealanders have no history of rebellion, either against British rule or against … faiths, of England, of the Wesleyans, of Rome, and also the Maori custom, shall be alike protected by him.' Some see …
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Part of story: Political values
… Gay liberation The 1970s were a watershed in the history of lesbian and gay lives in New Zealand. Following …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… the British troops to Tauranga. On 29 April 1864 the Maori fortification at Pukehinahina, or the Gate Pa, on … and 10 children. Mitchell's Victoria Cross had a curious history. It was left inside his sea-chest, which was lost in …
Type: Biography
… of a giant forest lizard, the kawekaweau. In the Natural History Museum in Marseille, France, there is an unlabelled, …
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Part of story: Lizards
… the introduced common law in New Zealand’s early colonial history recognised the Crown as the owner of the foreshore …
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Part of story: Law of the foreshore and seabed
… The history of conservation in New Zealand charts how people …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… second. This level of timekeeping has evolved during a long history. Traditional time For people in pre-industrial …
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Part of story: Timekeeping
… of an entirely new coinage … is a rare moment in history … and it is the occasion for New Zealand to …
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Part of story: Coins and banknotes
… of international capitalist trade dates back centuries. Its history of use in New Zealand follows similar paths to that …
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Part of story: Smoking
… of mouth or by asking at shops in an area. Homes with a history Name-dropping in ‘to let’ ads was standard in the …
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Part of story: Household management
… critical of Bryce which was published in Rusden's History of New Zealand (1883). During Bryce's libel case …
Type: Biography