History

Rachael Eaton is a Dunedin-based urban designerwho has worked with the Dunedin City Council on a number of projects in the central city including the Dunedin Warehouse Precinct. On Saturday 22… Audio

A new book Women Now - the Legacy of Female Suffrage looks at what has been achieved, 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote - and incorporates objects from Te Papa's collection… Audio, Gallery

Scientist Quentin Atkinson has looked at how the structure of Pacific societies determined how quickly they converted to Christianity - but an historian is not so sure of his conclusions. Audio

NZ has a history of geographic rivalry, between regions, between cities, and between towns. On the sports field, in politics, in culture and even in warfare.  Audio

For te wiki o te reo Māori,  Sarah Johnston takes us on a jaunt through the Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision archives to explore how people learnt te reo in the past. Audio

The 170 students at Te Wharekura o Ruatoki are fluent in both te reo Māori and English. To celebrate Māori Language Week, John Campbell talks to Turuhira Hare - who studied and now teaches at the… Video, Audio

Dr Ann McEwan says the real test for a heritage building is if people are prepared to lie down in front of a bull dozer to save it.  Audio, Gallery

Cocaine & Rhinestones is a one-man history of country music that's attracting new fans to this often mocked and neglected musical genre. We speak with host Tyler Mahan Coe about his story, and play a… Audio

Jim talks to Studebaker enthusiast John Everiss to mark International Drive Your Studebaker Day. To the Otaki-based owner of the country's first and possibly only Studebaker museum, the car, an… Audio

The Green Party is calling for a plaque to commemorate the New Zealand Wars to be added to Parliament. There are 33 other plaques in Parliament but none in honour of the armed battles here in the mid… Audio

Ingrid Coles shares her remarkable life story with Lynn Freeman. Born in 1942 in Java, then the Dutch East Indies, her family was imprisoned in a series of brutal concentration camps by the Japanese… Audio

The Wairarapa, Central Otago and South Canterbury are the best regions for visiting Kiwi pubs, says travel writer Peter Janssen. And he should know – he's written about his 174 favourites in the book … Audio, Gallery

200 years ago, the young Ngare Raumati chief Tuai left the Bay of Islands for an epic trip around the UK and Europe. Professor Alison Jones from Auckland University joins us to talk a bit more about… Audio

Claire Regnault is a senior curator at Te Papa, where she specialises in dress. She is researching and writing a history of women's fashionable dress in colonial Aotearoa New Zealand and is on the… Audio

New Zealand born plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe was ground-breaking in his field. McIndoe was civilian consultant in plastic surgery to the RAF and his improvement on treatments to casualties… Audio, Gallery

Sam Neill can think of no greater adventure than Captain James Cook’s voyage across the Pacific Ocean 250 years ago. The Kiwi actor recently took a year off his day job to "do the Pacific with Cook”… Video, Audio

We know what is happening with confederate statues in the American south. Now the friendliest man in Hamilton, so-called because people pose with him in a variety of situations, Captain John Charles… Audio

The death of Senator John McCain reminds us that war heroes often play important roles as political leaders. This has been a tradition throughout the world but to what extent does it apply to New… Audio