Queen Victoria
The Parliamentary Collection: an eclectic list
“An incredibly diverse and eclectic collection”, the Parliamentary Collection has great art, black rods, protest bricks, bodily parts and much more. Audio
Book review - Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley
Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley, which is published by Hachette. Audio
The unlikely friendship of Victoria and Abdul
The new film Victoria & Abdul tells the story of Queen Victoria's close 13-year friendship with a young Muslim clerk she called ‘the Munshi’. Journalist Shrabani Basu first brought the 100 year old… Video, Audio, Gallery
Queen Victoria's epic feasts
Queen Victoria liked her food, no doubt about that. Food historian and broadcaster, Dr Annie Gray, pored through historic royal cookbooks for the detail in The Greedy Queen. Delving into the royal… Audio
Writer Daisy Goodwin
Daisy Goodwin is an historian, journalist, editor and novelist, and has a long career in British television, devising shows including Bookworm, The Nation's Favourite Poems, Home Front and Grand… Audio
Sister ships dock in Auckland
Two Queens are making a rare joint appearance in Auckland. It's the first time the Queen Mary Two and its sister ship, the Queen Victoria, have been docked together since the 1940's. Queen Mary Two is… Audio
St John's Archivists
Everyone knows the Order of St John in New Zealand, which operates most of the country's ambulance services. But what do you know about its history? Audio
Spectrum for 17 August 2014
Alwyn Owen explores the lighter side of New Zealand's poetry of patriotism which was fashionable during the latter half of the 19 century and the early 20th. Our patriotic versifiers were eclectic… Audio
Queen Victoria's Incedible Journey (1982)
An amazing document has been 'discovered' in one of our research libraries by the Spectrum team. In Queen Victoria's own handwriting, it details how she visited this country incognito in 1882… Audio