People | Society | History
Awesome stories
History up close! Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story. Provides access to original sources such as artifacts, manuscripts, documents located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Especially good for schools, libraries, educators and students.
Cenotaph
Search for biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women from the 19th century till today and especially from World War One and World War Two.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Provides a wide range of articles and reports on women's issues from professional and popular journals, and newspapers, searchable by keyword, or subjects such as "gender equity". Suitable for academic level study.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive.
Eyewitness
History through the eyes of those who lived it. Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. From 17th Century onward, the focus is largely American.
HistoryWorld
HistoryWorld is a general-knowledge website, designed for anyone above the age of about twelve with an interest in history. It approaches history in a way that is traditional but until recently unfashionable - as a narrative, making full use of chronology. 'What happened next?' is for all of us a fascinating question, and one of direct relevance in this context. At the heart of history there is inevitably a sequence of events. Timelines, linked to extensive background content, and interconnecting 'Tours through Time', provide the user with an unparalleled view of the fabric of world history.
New Zealand History Online
The site features information and resources from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Three broad categories showcase themes in New Zealand history: Culture and society, Politics and government and War and society. A Hands-on history section includes links to guides, external websites and other material for those who are 'doing' and teaching history.
