The huge task of moving millions of New Zealand's most precious documents to their new home begins in Wellington this week. Archives New Zealand is moving just across the road from its current ...

On May 13, 1995, Challenger Russell Coutts skippered Team New Zealand’s Black Magic sloop to a 1-minute, 50-second victory over Dennis Conner’s borrowed Young America boat off Point Loma to ...

Ms Macaskill will take up the appointment at Archives New Zealand on 11 June. She will be the first permanent chief executive of the department since Archives became a department on 1 October 2000.

Ngā Taonga welcomes Archives New Zealand development The announcement yesterday by Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin that a new Archives New Zealand building in Wellington could also ...

The Minister responsible for Archives New Zealand Judith Tizard says the inaugural Archives New Zealand Scholarship will encourage the use of archives holdings in new and innovative ways ...

[Photo by Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Flickr / CC BY 2.0] The Treaty made false promises that the British would respect Māori sovereignty over their land.

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of New Zealand. The formal treaty was signed in 1840 by an Irish sea captain from Waterford. This morning, the New Zealand Ambassador ...

In 1944, the short film Women Truck Drivers from Weekly Review no. 138 highlighted the essential role women played during World War II in New Zealand. Produced by the National Film Unit, the film ...

Where New Zealand’s embrace of Anzac differs from Australia is the place of the legend in national mythology. Archives New Zealand/Flickr As the centenary of the Gallipoli landings approaches ...