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After decades of snubs and stonewalling, Britain’s monarch finally visits Tūrangawaewae.
Almost two centuries after its discovery, an enigmatic bell is bringing communities together.
Five decades ago, a TV show changed the national psyche.
How a town called Maxwell got—and lost—its name.
Soviet Russia aimed a satellite at Venus. It hit Ashburton.
The rise, fall, and resurrection of a pioneering rangatira
The stock market crashes, burns.
The fight to decriminalise homosexuality.
In the early 1800s, young Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha narrowly escaped death. His legacy lives on in the haka he composed.
How one bacterium built our health system.
In WWI, fighter pilots went down with their aircraft. Could a bag of folded silk save them? In 1917, a New Zealander jumped out of a plane to find out.
A turning point for taonga Māori.
Our first silver-screen heroine is born.
An overconfident meteorologist comes up with the idea of naming storms after people—especially people he doesn’t like.
On a brief visit to Auckland, the celebrated author of Treasure Island almost didn’t make it out of the harbour.
A steamer goes down off Wellington.
It was the sensation of 1902—a celebrity bodybuilder toured New Zealand encouraging locals to get ripped.
The Burgess Gang brings terror to the goldfields.
Scientists fight over old bones.
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