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Politically incorrect Christmas games
Before e-games, people played all sorts of games around Christmas time. Some of these games, such as the ‘Light the cigarette race’  and 'the slave market', haven’t stood the test of time very well.
Playing cards near the Western Front line
New Zealand Rifles members enjoy a game of cards.
Rest and recreation on the Western Front
This slideshow provides a glimpse of New Zealand soldiers going on leave and enjoying moments of recreation and humour behind the lines.
Auckland Regimental pipe band in France, 1918
Members of the Auckland Regimental pipe band pose with a canine mascot in France, 30 Apr 1918. Brass and pipe bands, choirs and other musical groups played an important role in maintaining moral and providing entertainment for soldiers in camp behind the lines.Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: 1/2-013177-G,Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its Timeframes website Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
1982 Football World Cup game
The All Whites’ achievement in reaching the 1982 World Cup finals even inspired a children’s board game, the ‘Ball-O World Cup soccer game’ - marketed as ‘exciting new family sporting entertainment’. The cover image shows the ball flying past Indonesia’s goalkeeper during New Zealand’s 5-0 qualifying win at Mount Smart Stadium.
Picnic races
Picnic races, Hawke's Bay, 1961.
Sound: social life in Parliament
Hear Francis Fisher, Member of Parliament between 1905 and 1914, discuss social life in Parliament.
Sound: the lobby at Parliament
The lobby, around 1900. The lobby was the centre of parliamentary life. Here, bets were made and tricks played, and the more boisterous Member of Parliament sometimes put on the odd impromptu sporting or wrestling match as well.
Prisoners of war library
Two POWs in the library at Stalag VIIIA, near Gorlitz in Germany
Statistics staff picnic
Annual Statistics staff picnic, Days Bay, 2000
Jim Barclay describes going to the pictures at Maadi Camp
Jim Barclay fought with the 27th (Machine Gun) Battalion during the North African campaign. Here he recalls going to the pictures at the infamous Shafto's cinema at Maadi Camp.
Lawrence Wright describes playing rugby in North Africa
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Wright was a doctor in the Medical Corps. At Gerawla he helped set up the hospital, but was also sports officer, responsible for making a rugby field
Camp entertainment for prisoners of war
Photographs of some of the bizarre entertainments performed in POW camps.
POWs carnival parade
Prisoners of war took any opportunity to fill in the long hours of incarceration. Here POWs at Stalag XVIIIA parade in costumes made from recycled material from Red Cross parcels in a 'carnival' called Roman Holiday
Prisoners of war filling in time
At a camp in Italy POWs walk to fill in the time
Sound: POW camp entertainment
Hear George Trundle talking about how POWs kept themselves entertained
Wellington cafe culture
Café culture has become integral to Wellington's identity. This culture began in the 1930s with the emergence of the milk bar, followed by coffee houses in the 1950s. After a period of decline in the 1960s and 70s, the city's café scene has grown in spectacular fashion over the last 20 years.
Overview - Wellington cafe culture
Wellington city centre is renowned for its flourishing café scene and the culture it inhabits. But it was nearly 1950 before there was much sign of the sparkling capital that exists today.
Design and technology
New construction materials and equipment fashioned the cafe culture rising in the 1950s. Wellingtonians were introduced to the espresso machines as European styled cafes emerged.
Immigration and Society
The rise of coffee houses in the 1940s, 50s and 60s was not a phenomenon confined to Wellington, or indeed to New Zealand. The connection between the history of cafe culture and immigration is significant.

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