History

Dogs in Antarctica - Tales from the Pack is the name of a new exhibition at Canterbury Museum. Sarah Johnston  delves into the sound archives to see what recordings we have about these heroic canines.

The remains of two New Zealand sailors who died in England over 60-years ago are arriving back in New Zealand on Wednesday morning. A ceremony's being held at the Devonport Naval Base shortly and our… Audio

A mass exhumation of 53 tupuna or ancestors is planned for an urupa or cemetery being washed away by the Wairoa River. A group of whanau whose loved ones are buried at Matiti Urupa, outside of Wairoa… Audio

A New Zealand archaeologist at the University of Rhode Island is urging the government to become involved in the recovery of Captain Cook's Endeavour. But so far Bridget Buxton's efforts have been… Audio

One of the greatest exploratory ships in history - the Erebus, which disappeared in 1845 only to be found 169 years later under Canadian ice - is now the subject of a book by broadcaster and history… Video, Audio

To mark the 125th anniversary of Women's Suffrage, broadcaster Alison Mau hosted a series of panel-style conversations called What Women Want. Listen to highlights from the discussions Healthcare… Video, Audio

Jason Reeve from Ancestry.com has been collating the first comprehensive list of NZ victims of the 1918 flu pandemic. He will give a free speech at Auckland Central Library on 3 October. The pandemic… Audio, Gallery

'Beyond Kate' marks the 125th anniversary of the suffrage petition, and the decision to allow women in New Zealand to vote. RNZ's Sonia Sly tells the story of how this momentous decision was reached… Audio

Hebrew-reading student Richard Myburgh has been meticulously translating and documenting Hebrew enscriptions on more than 80 headstones in the Symonds Street cemetery for two months - simply because… Video, Audio

Experts believe they may... just may... have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour off the coast of Rhode Island, where it's reported to have sunk in August 1778 .. Audio

Health camps have been helping sickly Kiwi kids get better for a century now. What was it like to be at one? And why are the camps today failing to thrive? Audio

Today marks the 125th anniversary of New Zealand women winning the right to vote in 1893. A new online exhibition has been created by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, called Standing on the Shoulders. Sarah… Audio

Gaining the vote was a battle hard won for New Zealand women. Episode one of Beyond Kate visits the petition, hears about the woman whose name sits atop it & looks at the lives of rural women then and… Audio

For the 125th anniversary of women gaining the vote in New Zealand, it pays to look back on how things have changed - not just in the static moments between then and now, but in the gradual shifts…

Beyond Kate is a podcast exploring women's suffrage in New Zealand 125 years after women gained the right to vote in New Zealand. The series launches 19 September commemorating women's suffrage. Audio

Sonia Sly meets historians, archivists and descendants of women who signed the 1893 petition that won women the right to vote in the 1893 election. Audio

From winning Miss New Zealand in 1949 and traveling the world, to dealing with family tragedy, and finally to embracing an identity of her own as an older woman, Mary Woodward, has certainly lived… Audio, Gallery

Only a handful of them remain, but over a hundred years ago New Zealand was home to 18 of two and a half thousand libraries around the world, established by American industrialist and philanthropist… Audio

A new book charts the nine times between 1991 and 2018 that apologies have been made for the atrocities that happened at Parihaka, and argues that it's time to stop. In Ko Taranaki Te Maunga… Audio