Activities and Projects
Creating a digital community resource to preserve stories surrounding the impact of the First World War on the Buller district.
Collecting the wartime reading experiences of New Zealanders at home and abroad for the New Zealand Reading Experience Database (NZ-RED).
Publication of The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War, by Christopher Pugsley.
Creating a new play about young Aussies and Kiwis visiting Gallipoli on the night before Anzac Day. What is it that attracts them?
Over 100 identified/named photographs of New Zealand military nurses upload to the NZANS website.
Restoring the Kaitaia First World War memorial for the centenary commemorations.
For Us They Fell is an exhibition about the men and women of the Waikato during the First World War, at Hamilton's Waikato Museum from 25 April 2015 to 11 November 2018. Tours are available.
A collections-driven exhibition project that explores New Zealanders’ objects related to the First World War from both overseas and the home front.
New Zealand Post honours those who served in the First World War with a five year programme of commemorative stamps and coins. The first stamp issue tells the story of serviceman Melville Mirfin.
A sculptural work in memorial to the grievous losses of the First World War and a reflection on the idea of 'victory' in war. Now exhibiting in Europe.
Quick March was the official monthly publication of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association between 1918 and 1923. Auckland Libraries are digitising it to make it available online.
Researching and documenting local involvement in the First World War to enrich the Coromandel Heritage Trust's existing website.