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Happy Anniversary Auckland! oratia.co.nz/product/auck...

#auckland #oratiabooks #nzhistory #aucklandhistory #aucklandanniversaryday @greaterauckland.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
dialogcrm.bsky.social
Side quest mission accomplished. George Kemp was my great, great grandfather & first ‘white’ settler to die in the area. His wife Marrion died less than a year later in childbirth. My great grandfather (Richard) was only 3 at the time. #nzhistory
January 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
dunnersmads.bsky.social
#nzhistory
January 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen

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A group of Māori women sat outside a polling station in 1908. They are in typical Edwardian fashions, including some natty straw boater hats.
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as Minister of Tourism in Aotearoa / New Zealand. She's the first Māori woman to be a Cabinet minister.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan with three male cabinet ministers. She is a Māori woman wearing a bold-patterned dress. The men are all in suits.
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1910, Emmeline Freda Du Faur becomes the first white woman to climb Aoraki (Mount Cook) in New Zealand.

If other women climbed it earlier, their climbs were not recorded.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Posed photo of Emmeline Freda Du Faur in her mountaineering skirt.
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
stephenclarkenz.bsky.social
Congratulations Erik Olssen — 2025 New Zealand Historical Association Award for Contribution to New Zealand History. #NZHistory #HistoryMatters #history @universityofotago.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 29 Nov 1949, Iriaka Rātana is elected to the New Zealand parliament (Pāremata Aotearoa). She was the first Māori woman to become an MP. She held her seat until her retirement in 1969.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Iriaka Rātana standing at an outdoor meeting, surrounded by men sitting in suits. She is a Māori woman with white and grey hair.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1893, over 90,000 women in Aotearoa New Zealand voted in parliamentary elections for the first time.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
photo of a rural polling station in 1893 including some women lined up by the door
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
bwbnz.bsky.social
Congratulations to authors Jared Davidson and Ryan Bodman, winners at the 2025 NZHA Prizes!

• W.H. Oliver Prize (best NZ history book): Jared Davidson, 'Blood and Dirt'
• Erik Olssen Prize (best first book): Ryan Bodman, 'Rugby League in NZ'

Read more: nzha.org.nz/conferences-past...

#NZHistory
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
thecatswhiskers.bsky.social
I can highly recommend this #NZHistory #Kikorangi #NZpol
bwbnz.bsky.social Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · Nov 14
Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' reveals how empire shaped lives in 19th-century Aotearoa and beyond.

Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.

www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...

#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
bwbnz.bsky.social
Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' reveals how empire shaped lives in 19th-century Aotearoa and beyond.

Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.

www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...

#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
delwynm.bsky.social
More land was needed as more settlers arrived in Taranaki. Colonial Treasurer John Ballance pushed for the survey and sale of the confiscated Waimate Plain, just up the coast from Hāwera. Despite promising reserve land for Māori, none had been set aside when surveyors moved onto the plain in 1879.
Black and white photo of John Ballance, showing his short beard and dark-coloured jacket. Photo: NZHistory.
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
pennym.bsky.social
Amazing thread of #nzhistory

Thanks @br3nda.bsky.social !
br3nda.bsky.social Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔🌻 @br3nda.bsky.social · Nov 1
#nzhistory... Rewind back before the nz company...

The first big shot at colonising Aotearoa came way back in 1825. A rich British politician, John George Lambton, sent two ships to scope out the place for resources and trade opportunities.
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
br3nda.bsky.social
#nzhistory... Rewind back before the nz company...

The first big shot at colonising Aotearoa came way back in 1825. A rich British politician, John George Lambton, sent two ships to scope out the place for resources and trade opportunities.
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
timward2014.bsky.social
A wonderful little heartwarming Kiwi battler story about how a bunch of plucky misfits and ne'er do wells turned around a collapsed capitalist economy with just a little hard work, big ideas...

...and a fuckload of land confiscation.
#nzpol #toitūtetiriti #nzhistory #aonzhistory
br3nda.bsky.social Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔🌻 @br3nda.bsky.social · Nov 1
It's 1870 in Aotearoa, the economy is in trouble...

The land wars faded out without much resolution except death and pain. The NZ gov was still called the colonial government. Māori had their own.

The gold rush hype in Otago, the West Coast, and Coromandel was drying up fast.
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
bwbnz.bsky.social
28 October marks Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara – the national day of commemoration for the New Zealand Wars.

Explore these histories with works by Vincent O’Malley, Hazel Riseborough, Judith Binney & more:

🔗 www.bwb.co.nz/books/history

#TePutakeoteRiri #HeRaMaumahara #NZHistory #Aotearoa
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
stetstudio.bsky.social
Takatāpui, a Māori word that refers to an intimate companion of the same sex, was reclaimed as an identity by Māori individuals in the 80s, It is a term similar, but not synonymous, with Queer or LGBT+, & many of the individuals who id as Takatāpui also id as queer. #QHM25 #NZHistory #QueerHistory
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
stephenclarkenz.bsky.social
This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
stephenclarkenz.bsky.social
On this day in 1938 Labour was re-elected in a landslide winning 56% of the vote and 53 seats against the newly-founded National party's 40% / 25 seats. The first election Māori were provided a secret ballot the same as Pākehā voters had enjoyed since 1870! #nzpolitics #nzhistory #History
Michael Joseph Savage on the campaign trail. Ref: 1/2-051739-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
October 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
mikejbain.bsky.social
Something unexpected that I learned on my research trip last week was this: Chairman Mao was gifted a kahu huruhuru in 1957 by Ramai Te Miha Hayward & her husband, NZ pioneer filmmaker, Rudall. It was a gift of goodwill from Māori King Korokī. #nzhistory
October 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 13 Oct 1975, Te Rarawa leader Whina Cooper brings around 5,000 marchers to the New Zealand Parliament to present a petition signed by 60,000 people protesting ongoing Māori land alienation.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Whina Cooper addressing the crowd at the protest. She is an older Maori woman wearing a traditional cloak over her clothes.
October 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
fieldnsn.bsky.social
And a complementary School Bulletin from 1976, Gold by Kevin Lawson #nzhistory #opshop #booksky
A photograph of the cover of a 1976 School Bulletin, Gold by Kevin Lawson
October 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
fieldnsn.bsky.social
A lucky #opshop find, had been on the hunt for this for a while
#nzhistory
A photograph of the book cover Diggers, Hatters & Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes by Stevan Eldred - Grigg
October 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 25 Sept 1951, 87 women meet at the first Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora (conference for the Māori Women’s Welfare League) in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️
Māori women in a conference theatre that has been set up with tables.
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM