"The Eight Hour Day Committee", 1890, image by Winifred Gladys Rainbow. Really, the six signatories to the illuminated address p...

Researching a life, the further back you go, means there will always be gaps. Gaps in which something happened that changed that life, often...

  Fourteen days hard labour in Mt Eden Gaol in Auckland for the theft of some roses. Such was the sentence in 1888 for Sir Charles Burdett, ...

  I came upon the story of the first burials on Motuihe Island by accident, while looking up something completely different in Papers Past l...

The Kosy, Donovan Street, Blockhouse Bay, from Jan Grefstad collection, Auckland Libraries From 1926 to 1973, Blockhouse bay had a hall/danc...

Images: "Group portrait of sailors, marines, and other men in civilian clothes at the Mount Eden rifle range, with shooting targets vis...

  (Left)  Portrait of Christopher James Parr, former mayor of Auckland, and Reform Party candidate for Eden in the 1919 general elections, f...

(left) 1st Viscount Cardwell, and (right) detail from 1865 map of New Lynn,  NZ Map 4498-5, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections In a p...