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Three Kings Carols by Candlelight
This Friday evening, Heritage & Research and Mt Roskill Library team members are heading along to the Puketāpapa Christmas Festival featuring Three Kings Carols by Candlelight. Our Ephemera...
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To get into the spirit of the season we currently have a Christmas related display in the Special Collections reading room on the 2nd floor of the Central Library. On display until the end of December...
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The HMS Achilles memorial
The WW100 commemorations have drawn renewed attention to our First World War memorials. This does not mean our Second World War memorials should be forgotten: 13 December 2015 is the 75th anniversary...
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Auckland Weekly News Photos for 1914 and 1915
Auckland Weekly News photographs for the period August 1914 to December 1915 have now been more fully described so that they can be searched by description and subject. These photos were published in...
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Christmas time
It’s that time of year again, the halls are decked and the streets are decorated.Ref: Eric W Young, Looking south along Queen Street..., 1980s, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries,...
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J.M. Sherrard award in New Zealand regional and local history
A colleague was recently down in Christchurch at the New Zealand Historical Association conference for 2015 and has bought back news of the most recent winners of the J. M. Sherrard award in New...
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Culture, entertainment and leisure in Wellsford and nearby locations, Pt 1
When they came to Aotearoa, Tangata whenua brought cultural practices with them. These continued to change and adapt to local circumstances.Te Ara has a story on Whakairo / Māori carving and its...
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The Auckland Sun: photograph of David Bowie arriving at Auckland...
The Auckland Sun newspaper was established as a tabloid format morning paper in competition with the New Zealand Herald. It was launched on 10 August 1987, but closed less than a year later, the final...
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In and around Featherston Camp by Sir Alfred Hamish Reed
100 years ago this Sunday, 24 January, the Featherston Military Training Camp officially opened its doors to men from around the country.Ref: Auckland Weekly News, New Zealand's latest training centre...
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Manurewa's soldiers
Future soldiersThe photograph below was taken on the opening day of Manurewa School, 3 September 1906. This group includes a number of boys who a few years later would see active service during the...
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Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about Māori 1970-1975
A collection of 1970s newspaper articles regarding Māori is available to view in the Sir George Grey Special Collections reading room or to search online at Index Auckland. The scrapbooks contain many...
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From Guangdong to Aotearoa : an exhibition of Chinese voices
Opening tomorrow in the J T Diamond Reading Room & Gallery on Level 2 of the Waitakere Central Library is: "From Guangdong To Aotearoa", an exhibition of Chinese voices, an oral history exhibition...
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Culture, entertainment and leisure in Wellsford and nearby locations, Pt 2
This is the second part of this post about leisure in the northern parts of the Auckland region. Missed Part 1 of this post? Find it here. Culture, leisure and entertainment have changed with changing...
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The Homosexual Law Reform Bill: scrapbook of newspaper clippings 1985-86
Auckland celebrates its LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) communities during the Pride Festival in February. Pride Festival has become an important part of the Auckland...
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Unearthly landscapes: New Zealand’s early cemeteries, churchyards and urupā
In November 2004 Stephen Deed presented a Master of Arts Thesis to the University of Otago entitled Unearthly landscapes: the development of the cemetery in nineteenth century New Zealand, and until...
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Amongst the works of literature that Sir George Grey donated to the library is this interesting volume of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works printed for Bernard Lintot in London in 1721:The works of Geoffrey...
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Fifty year wait for the loo
Auckland’s first Council-funded toilet was built for men on Queen Street wharf in 1863. However, the first Council-funded women’s facilities did not open until 1915 - after women’s groups and the...
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Shakespeare: in conversation
Over the past few weeks the Central City Library has been host to two talks in a series of events to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 1616, with two more events scheduled. In...
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Colonial Kiribati language publications
March brings both the Pasifika Festival and ASB Polyfest, and in addition to this Auckland Libraries have been celebrating Pasifika with a range of events throughout the region. This provides a great...
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