Te Ao Mārama - Websites and Finding Aids
Discover primary sources and more online. Find details of useful websites and finding aids for primary resources for your Te Ao Mārama research.
Our Databases
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Māori Clippings Database
This comprises 2 collections: newspaper and magazine clippings collected by Mr T.F. Grey (including titles such as 'The Days of Te Rauparaha', 'Tales of the Māori Raids', etc., 'Old time Maoris', and various series and contributions by James Cowan), and a collection of Dominion and Evening Post articles on Māori people covering the years 1930 to the present day. -
Waiata Database
Represents an index of waiata from sources held by Wellington City Libraries, including Sir Apirana Ngata's Ngāa Mōteatea. This database is a work in progress, and in time we will also include the library's collection of CD or DVD recordings of waiata.
Useful Websites
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Digital NZ
Search 30+ million New Zealand items across 300+ collections in one place. Sources include the online collections of museums, archives, libraries, galleries and more.
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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (A to Js)
The Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR), sometimes known as "the A to Js", is a collection of government-related reports published every year from 1858. The reports cover many subjects, documenting the work of government departments and a wide range of other activities carried out by, or of interest to, the government of the day. Find them on PapersPast below.
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Papers Past
Digitised New Zealand newspapers, periodicals, letters, diaries and parliamentary papers from 1839 to 1945. Coverage includes The Evening Post from 1865 to 1945, and The Dominion from 1907 to 1920, plus many other early Wellington region publications.
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Te Ao Hou
Te Ao Hou / The New World was a quarterly magazine published in New Zealand from 1952 to 1975. It was published by the Māori Affairs Department and printed by Pegasus Press. Find it online below as part of the National Library's PapersPast website.
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Waitangi Tribunal Reports
This site includes the published reports of the Waitangi Tribunal, as well as information about the Tribunal and its duties.
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Early New Zealand Books Database
The ENZB database from Auckland University has the full text of over 500 books about New Zealand from 1642 to around 1870 including subsequently published diaries and letters from the period. The text can be searched by keyword and the database includes an index of variant spellings.