History

One in three year 10 students in New Zealand have tried vaping according to a recent national survey. This despite a growing list of deaths and lung illnesses linked to it. It's just history repeating… Audio

One phrase that's bandied about is the "Irish backstop" - it aims to prevent a hard border in Ireland after the UK leaves the EU. Sonja Tiernan, the Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies at Otago… Audio

Music will tell the story of the 733 Polish children and their caregivers who sought refuge in Pahiatua during the Second World War. Audio

It's been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Thomas Sparrow reports on the weekend's commemorative events. There have been everything from political celebrations, concerts, open-air… Audio

November marks 40 years since the country's worst aviation disaster, when 257 people died after an Air New Zealand plane crashed into the side of Mt Erebus in Antarctica.

In the fallout from the… Audio

Forty years on from the Erebus Disaster which claimed 257 lives, a former Attorney General says he has one real regret from that period.

In November 1979 an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed… Audio

Today marks 30 years since the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the story of how the Wall came down being told across the city this week. Berlin-based journalist Rachel Loxton… Audio

A new book tells the story of Aotearoa New Zealand through the maps that guided our first inhabitants and the explorers and settlers that followed. Singing the Trail digs back into the history of the… Audio, Gallery

New Zealand saw the UK’s ‘Brentry’ into the EEC in 1973 as an existential threat to our nation’s future. It preoccupied New Zealanders for a decade and eventually all hinged on 48 hours of… Audio

Forty years ago, 257 people were killed when Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Mount Erebus. It remains the worst peacetime disaster in New Zealand history in loss of life terms. Audio

Earlier this week we talked to Matthew Hooton about teaching history in New Zealand, and the importance of story-telling in keeping young people interested and engaged. Audio

It’s the final episode of the Aotearoa History Show! Rogernomics, Ruthanasia and the referendum on MMP saw the total restructuring of our economy and voting system. Plus a snapshot of the changing… Audio

It's time to dive into the week's news, in the past. This week our resident historian Robert Kelly has his heart set on going to the 1939 Centennial Exhibition this time of year in 1939. Audio

Have we grown as a nation and are able to accept defeat at the Rugby World Cup better than on previous occasions? Historian Dr Grant Morris looks back at reaction to our RWC losses. Audio

Last weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of over 700 Polish child refugees during World War II. Commemorations were held at Pahīatua. Video, Audio, Gallery