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1853, New Zealand's first general election begins

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Waitangi treaty copy
The golden age of Crown Lynn pottery
Anzac Day quiz
Waikato-Manukau treaty copy
Maori land loss, 1860-2000
He Whakaputanga - Declaration of Independence, 1835
The 1981 Springbok tour schedule (map)
The creeping barrage
Christmas card slide show
Gallipoli casualties by country
Wahine disaster map
Santa parades
Henry Williams treaty copy
Stretcher-bearers on the Western Front
Passchendaele interactive map
Quail Island, Lyttelton used by Antarctic expeditions
Classic Wellington cafes map
US military forces in New Zealand map
Santa goes to the Chathams
Confession of Burgess - Maungatapu murders
Claus in stores slide show
Sites of shared Antarctic and NZ significance
Library fashion slideshow
Memorial oak to Robert Falcon Scott, Oamaru
Christmas in wartime
Passchendaele letter from Leonard Hart
Tūranga treaty copy
Robert Scott memorial in Christchurch
Antarctic experience slide show
Endurance expedition parties
Sinai campaign map
Sir Edmund Hillary stamps
Diary of Clarence Hare, steward on Antarctic expedition
Anzac commemorative site panorama, Gallipoli
Herald Bunbury treaty copy
Pursuing the Mau in 1930 - slideshow
Blowing up Belmont railway viaduct
Map of selected Antarctic places named after New Zealanders
Matariki stamps for 2009
Bay of Plenty treaty copy
Funland poster for the Centennial Exhibition
Jean Batten and Buddy the cat
1950 Empire Games rowing at Karapiro
The search for a king - Māori King movement map
Remembering the 1981 Springbok Tour
Manukau-Kāwhia treaty copy
Aratere ferry slideshow
Plugge's Plateau panorama, Gallipoli
Matariki stamps for 2010
Expansion of the North Island rail network
Black Saturday map
Tauranga treaty copy
NZ troops arrive to annex German Samoa in 1914
Dealing with grief on the Western Front
Aboard the Aramoana slide show
First flights to Antarctica
Restoring historic huts in Antarctica
Library t-shirts and badges
A Cook Strait crossing story
Panorama: Debating Chamber

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