Local History Stories
Keep up to date with our local history stories.
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Bringing History Into 2024: A Recap
This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more! -
Past author event: Watch Fact and Fiction, Writing History
Watch the video of our author event with Kate Mahony,Clare Gleeson and Mary McCallum. -
One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
Theatre programmes and posters collected by the library over many decades are able to be rediscovered on Wellington City Recollect.
Recent stories
- Video Interview with Daniel Beban: parts one and two
- Author Interview: Daniel Beban
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- Te Tiriti: Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 29 April 1840
- New online resource: the Wellington Provincial Council Gazette, 1854-1876
- The Spectacular Cinemas of Wellington
- The Rise of Vernacular Architecture in Wellington