Old frames: the nitrate wind through
Each year the nitrate film collection of Ngā Taonga is ‘wound through’ as an essential part of its safe keeping.
Read moreEach year the nitrate film collection of Ngā Taonga is ‘wound through’ as an essential part of its safe keeping.
Read moreSarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.
Read moreCommemorations will be held around New Zealand and at Ypres in France this week to mark the centenary of what has been called “our darkest day”, when 843 New Zealanders were killed in just a few hours on the morning of the 12th of October 1917, near Passchendaele during World War I.
Read more– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Historic figures from Lyttelton’s past have
Read moreBy Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) September 15 marks the centenary of the
Read moreTo mark National Poetry Day, here is a historic radio broadcast from 1939 by politician and novelist John A. Lee
Read more– By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Earlier this week I stumbled across a number
Read more– By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Recently Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has
Read moreProducer Shelley Wilkinson visits the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa to learn about the shrapnel-torn bugle of twenty-year-old bugler
Read moreBugler Trevor Bremner and producer Shelley Wilkinson discuss the various bugle calls that make up the “Last Post” (“Bugle Stories,” RNZ
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