The Treaty of Waitangi Collection brings together leading thinking on this foundational document, including works by acclaimed scholars such as Claudia Orange, Judith Binney, Vincent O’Malley, Alan Ward and Aroha Harris.
He Tohu is a permanent exhibition of 3 iconic constitutional documents that shape Aotearoa New Zealand including the Treaty of Waitangi. Visit and learn about New Zealand’s histories, the journeys these documents have taken, and what they mean for us now.
If you can't make it to the exhibit there are various online resources available.
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is the complete guide to our peoples, environment, history, culture and society.
The Papers Past website has a wealth of historical information, with millions of pages of digitised content from New Zealand and the Pacific. Use it to search and explore digitised full-text materials for your research or school project.
Stories is a collection of found items from DigitalNZ that users can curate into a story. You can document your research project, or upload your own images to tell your story or simply you can use stories to save inspirational finds on the website.
Index New Zealand is a searchable online database of records containing abstracts (summaries) and subject headings (names and subject keywords) for articles from New Zealand periodicals (journals and magazines) and newspapers.
Most of the titles in Index New Zealand (INNZ) are from the 1980s to 2024, although we do have titles from the early 20th century onwards.
The Tuia Mātauranga education programme supports teaching and learning, highlighting local people, places, and events that have helped shape our nation’s histories. The programme is aimed at inspiring children and young people to explore their own stories of who they are and where they come from, to develop a more in-depth knowledge of their whakapapa and identity.