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The story of New Zealand and its people from its geological origins to modern day, hosted by William Ray & Leigh-Marama McLachlan, with animation by Chris Maguren. Made possible by the RNZ/N...
New Zealand has had some big ambitions in the Pacific and mixed relations with our neighbours. Watch the video version of the episode here T...
It seems an almost heretical question, but it’s gotta be asked! Why are NZ and Australia different countries? You might be surprised to know...
NOTE: This episode has been reuploaded to correct some inaccuracies in the original version. We all know New Zealand was the first country i...
New Zealanders like to think we have a "Number 8 Wire Mentality" - a rough and ready enthusiasm for fixing and building stuff with limited r...
From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rai...
Marine mammals were a source of food and clothing for Māori and Moriori, and valuable oil for Europeans. Hunting them brought cultures toget...
These are the wars that cost more lives than any other in our history. Stretched over more than a decade & the entire country, these conflic...
Moriori are the original people of Rēkohu (aka Chatham Island or Wharekauri) and they have a tragic and inspiring story. Unfortunately, that...
In 1841 a few tiny islands of Pākehā settlement existed in an ocean of Māori land. Today, that picture has reversed & Māori own a fraction o...
The discovery of gold drew tens of thousands to New Zealand in search of fortune. It was a hard life, but diggers brought mateship, fashion...
New Zealanders have battled Covid-19 for more than two years, but if you think it's the first time disease has knocked us around, well, this...
The 1950s saw an explosion of youth culture. "Bodgies and widgies' ' tearing round on motorbikes & hanging out in milk bars scandalised many...
The first 500 years of Māori settlement in Aotearoa saw significant, dynamic changes to how people lived; changes that challenge the idea of...
No-one knows for sure who first introduced rabbits to New Zealand, because no-one wanted to take the blame for what became one of New Zealan...
Deep dive into a rigorous romp through the history of New Zealand, from its volcanic beginnings, through settlement, wars and social change...
It's the final episode of the Aotearoa History Show! Rogernomics, Ruthanasia and the referendum on MMP saw the total restructuring of our ec...
The 60s, 70s and 80s were rowdy decades. Kiwis were getting out in the streets and raising their voices about the rights of Māori, women and...
After the war came a new quest for security and identity. With it came new political debates and alliances. Maori and Pasifika moved to the...
A second world war swept the globe, dragging New Zealand once more onto the battlefield, this time in the Pacific as well as Europe. In the...
With World War I and the flu epidemic past, the good times rolled through the 1920s. Then came the bust of the Great Depression, prompting w...
It's the war that claimed more New Zealand lives than any other. It's also the event that's often claimed as the "foundational moment" where...
Through the final quarter of the 19th Century Pakeha settler numbers swelled. The immigrants sought land and started to create a new, distin...
After the wars, politicians had to figure out how to run the new country. Bold choices saw huge spending on infrastructure, the right of wom...
As British troops leave, settler militia enter the fray. Some Māori chose to fight alongside the Crown while others join new religious movem...
Hunger for land and the rise of Kingitanga prompted Governor George Grey to invade Waikato in 1863. Fighting spread over years and into the...
In Europe, factions debated the future of Aotearoa, while Māori had their own ideas how to handle the growing number of Pākehā here. In the...
Abel Tasman and James Cook's first contacts with Māori were complex and sometimes violent. Europeans brought new technologies, food and idea...
Around 850 years ago Polynesian explorers found an empty land and the story of people in Aotearoa began. A new culture emerged; tangata when...
Before people there was the land. We start the story of New Zealand 100 million years ago as tectonic forces tear apart Gondwana and Zealand...