History

From the moment Film Director Christopher Nolan read a Pulitzer Prize winning biography about the leader of the Manhattan Project laboratory, he wanted to tell his story. Now Oppenheimer is exceeding… Audio

Today's NZ Sporting history is with the yachtsman dubbed "New Zealand's favourite Aussie". Glenn Ashby's got 17 world championships to his name, an Olympic silver medal and three America's Cup titles.

One of New Zealand's most intriguing cricket mysteries is how Rodney Redmond can score a test hundred on debut and never play for his country again. The now-78-year-old's brief international career… Video, Audio

Two food lovers have teamed up to bring the taste of Thailand right into your kitchen. Chawadee - or Chow - Nualkhair is a Bangkok-based food writer and author of food blog Bangkok Glutton who teamed… Audio

At the Easter of 1939, on the cusp of WW2 and when Aucklander Johnny Green was just nine years old, his mother gifted him an egg cup. It featured three ceramic chicks, contained a single chocolate… Audio

Today on NZ Sporting History we speak to one half of one of our most successful Olympic duos. With Hamish Bond, Eric Murray won back-to-back gold medals in the men's coxless pair rowing events at the… Audio

You've probably heard of Stonehenge, but have you heard of Caterton's Stonehenge Aotearoa? The original Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument believed to have been built from around 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

Putting names to faces is exactly what Te papa and the Wellington Indian Association is hoping to do with a series of mystery portraits. About 4000 photographic negatives were discovered in a cupboard… Video, Audio

In 1950s, two pilots from the Royal New Zealand Air Force joined Australian ranks to fly jets in the Korean War. The 27 of July marks the 70th anniversary of the war's Armistice. Audio

Simon Schama is a pre-eminent historian and the author of The Power of Art, Landscape and Memory and Citizens, the story of the French Revolution. He's a Professor of History and Art History at… Audio

Arthur Edwards MBE is now 82 years of age. He has been a photographer of the royal family for longer than anyone else, certainly in a mainstream media capacity and has worked all that time for The Sun… Audio

Push your way through a tangle of bush only kilometres from the Napier-Taupō highway and you are on an ancient pa site. Tangata whenua sheltered here hundreds of years ago but this site is known to… Video, Audio

An air force plane has flown low over Palmerston North to say a special happy birthday. World War 2 veteran Eddie Chapman is turning 100 today, quite the achievement for a man who spent his 21st… Audio

We call this star cluster Matariki – but the Seven Sisters myth is told all over the world, in startlingly similar fashion. Could it be our oldest story? Audio