Call for women’s wartime stories
Mon, 4 Apr 2022
Historian and author Renée Hollis is searching New Zealand for untold stories from what she calls the Silent Army – the women left behind in...
/HistoryHistory – Saving the harbour
Mon, 28 Mar 2022
This photograph of the Mangawhai sand spit, taken from the southern end after an initial breach in 1978, was followed by Cyclone Bola in 1987....
/HistoryHistory – Two pandemics
Wed, 16 Mar 2022
An early autumn morning and friends call to each other across the Puhoi River. “How was your cataract operation? Are the peaches ripening over there?”...
/HistoryHistory – Is this our district’s oldest building?
Wed, 2 Mar 2022
An excerpt from Brett & Hook’s The Albertlanders Amongextracts from letters sent to London by Mr W R Brame, one reads: “I have advanced about...
/HistoryHistory – Mr Cray and the silk top hat
Tue, 1 Mar 2022
Over the years, many items have been given to the Albertland Museum which remind us of those early settlers who came to Albertland 159 years...
/HistoryHistory – Love and marriage
Mon, 14 Feb 2022
Few people know that Warkworth & Districts Museum houses an extensive collection of textiles in an approved textile conservation storage area to ensure the preservation...
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