Local History Stories
Keep up to date with our local history stories.
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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!
Recent stories
- Past author event: Watch Fact and Fiction, Writing History
- One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
- 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