New Zealand is a young country, in both geological and human terms. In fact, New Zealand was the last habitable place in the world to be discovered.

Timeline New Zealand - 26,500BC to the present.

Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. The subject of this portrait, Tamati Waka Nene, was a Rangatira or chief of the Ngāti Hao people in Hokianga, of the Ngāpuhi iwi or tribe, and an important war leader.

A history of New Zealand 1769-1914 - In the period between the first European landings and the First World War, beginning with the arrival of James Cook in 1769, New Zealand was transformed from an exclusively Māori world into one in which Pākehā dominated numerically, politically, so

The New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero (‘the List’) identifies New Zealand's significant and valued historical and cultural heritage places.

Includes New Zealand oral history.

The history of New Zealand : a brief overview of the pre-historic, colonial and modern periods

Explore over 3,000 life stories in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

An overview of NZ history with a link to NZ biographies