NZ History Alive Tape Exerpts

Meet Te Horeta, a Maori boy who lived in the 1760’s in New Zealand. Hear him describe the taste of eel, the importance of tapu, and the sights and sounds of daily village life. Read excerpt

Listen as Young Nick, the cabin boy who first discovered New Zealand, tells of his experiences aboard the Endeavour with Captain Cook. Read excerpt

Join Samuel Williams as he tells of his childhood pranks, his friendship with Maori, and how his father translated the Treaty of Waitangi. Read excerpt

Hear the story of William Fitzgerald’s arrival with his parents to the respectable Canterbury settlement of 1850. Read excerpt

Identify with Laetitia Govett as she describes the turmoil around her during the fight for land in the Taranaki wars in 1863. Read excerpt

Listen to young Alice Miller’s story of how her hometown in Otago has changed between the times of adventuring gold miners in 1840 to her pioneering life at school and on the farm in 1900. Read excerpt

Imagine with Mary McKenzie the delights of moving from a substandard house to the first state house in New Zealand in 1940's. Read excerpt

Listen to Karen’s descriptions of milk bars and movies, wirelesses and ferries and understand the burgeoning North Shore of Auckland as a fifties child. Read excerpt