Karere 'Local history' - 'Local history' stories
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Pat Lawlor and the works of 'Mr Wellington'
With the kind permission of his extended family, the most significant published works of Pat Lawlor have been digitised for the first time on Wellington City Recollect. -
Wellington’s Café Culture: the Visual Guide
“Coffee’s done more for cities in the past 25 years than architecture’s done in the past 150.” (Sir Ian Athfield, 1940 – 2015) -
New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation
Photographs from the New Zealand Railways Department capture the modernisation of train routes in the Wellington region, with a focus on the Upper Hutt to Wairarapa connection. -
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. -
Video Interview with Daniel Beban: parts one and two
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book, Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story. -
Author Interview: Daniel Beban
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book Future Jaw-Clap. -
RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
A 1980s magazine from Wellington’s pioneering alternative radio station is now available to read online -
Te Tiriti: Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 29 April 1840
Learn about when Te Tiriti was signed by mana whenua. -
New online resource: the Wellington Provincial Council Gazette, 1854-1876
Digitised for the first time is the collection of the weekly gazette of the Wellington Provincial Council, which offers a fascinating insight into the city and region’s early colonial history. -
The Spectacular Cinemas of Wellington
For much of the 20th century, entertainment was dominated by movie theatres. Many of our early cinemas grew from live theatres following the first screening of motion pictures in the capital in 1896. -
The Rise of Vernacular Architecture in Wellington
The 1960s and 1970s saw the rise of a unique style of New Zealand architecture. Two of the best known exponents of this new form were the Wellington based architects, Roger Walker and Ian Athfield. -
The Flowering of The Tulip
In the late 1950s, a pioneering restaurant helped introduce Wellington to ‘fine dining.' -
New online genealogical resource: The Scholefield Papers
A collection of letters and family trees detailing the genealogy of thousands of individuals descending from early European settlers of the Wellington Province is now available on Recollect. -
Where did Rongotai Terrace go?
With the launch of the newly-digitised Wellington Airport Development Collection, we take a look back at a version of Rongotai that no longer exists. -
‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith
Previously only available in an online text form, one of the most useful and readable books about Wellington’s local history is now fully digitised on Wellington City Recollect. -
Let’s Get Wellington Moving… in the 1920s
A century ago, Wellington City Council was dealing with similar issues to those facing planners today.