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Distant Sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-1914 James Keating

Distant Sisters offers a new history of the connections women in Australia and New Zealand made with one another, and the rest of the world, first in their pioneer pursuit of the vote and then in their struggle to sell its merits overseas.

From AK79 to the Class of 81: photos from 1978 to 1982 (and a few more) Anthony Phelps

In 1978 a young man began to take photographs of the bands that visited his school, playing lunchtime concerts. Over the next five years, he visually documented one of the most exciting eras in Auckland’s rock and roll history, the punk and post-punk years.

Fuelling Dissension: Coal and coal mining in 21st century New Zealand Jane Young

Fuelling Dissension weaves together the historical, political, social, economic and environmental strands that underlie the struggle between coal mining and conservation.

Not Set in Stone: the passion and consequence of a mountain life David Vass

Before a life-altering accident in 2015, David Vass was one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. Not Set in Stone describes the passion of a mountain life, but also sets out the consequences when that life goes wrong.  

Southern Celts: Stories from people of Irish and Scottish descent in AotearoaCeline Kearney

Drawing on her own family experience and insights from her PhD inquiry, Celine Kearney interviewed New Zealanders with Scottish and Irish backgrounds to explore how they live out their cultural connections.

Tiakina te Pā Harakeke: Ancestral knowledge and tamariki wellbeing Edited by Leonie Pihama and Jenny Lee-Morgan

A compilation of knowledge on Māori childrearing practices, that have been maintained and encouraged within whānau, hapū and iwi for generations.