About us

NZHistory.net.nz aims to be your first port of call when you voyage the World Wide Web in search of information on New Zealand history.

As information on the Web proliferates, users need a reliable guide to sources and sites which may assist them in their research. Our focus is to link you with the information you seek, if it is available on the web, and to provide forums for discussion for those with similar interests in New Zealand history.

We also aim to gradually increase the content of the site with a gallery of on-line exhibitions and diversions based on information and resources from within the History Group.

Content of NZHistory.net.nz is co-ordinated by a small team from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand. The site was launched by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Jack Elder, at a function at National Archives (now Archives New Zealand) in Wellington on 16 March 1999. On 1 December 2001 the History Group launched the online Dictionary of New Zealand Biography which contains essays on over 3000 New Zealanders and 'Our Land Our People', a series of 'snapshots' of historical events and trends. In November 2005 we added The Classroom - a major new section for history teachers.

Please email us with your suggestions and feedback. If you have an historical question please post it on our discussion forum.

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Note that this site is designed to be accessible to as wide a range of users as practicable. To this end we have endeavoured to adhere to World Wide Web Consortium standards for HTML/XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets and web accessibility, though some of the earlier content still needs some work to bring it up to scratch!

While the site should work properly in early browsers, it will look much better in more recent versions which have a greater support for CSS.

Site editor and exhibition designer: Jamie Mackay