A collection of searchable electronic reference books on the Treaty of Waitangi from leading thinkers on this foundational document.
Trace your family history. Includes records from United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Archway is Archives New Zealand’s system for documenting government records. New Zealand Government records which can be useful in family history research include: Military Personnel Files, Women's Suffrage Petition, The New Zealand Police Gazette, Crown Purchase Deeds, Coroner's Inquests, Naturalisation and Alien Registers and migration records. Some of these records are available on the Archway site itself, others at Family Searchopens a new window and Papers Pastopens a new window etc. View a list of what has been digitised.
A rich resource for perspectives on major contentious social, political, and technological issues that are relevant to New Zealand and Australia.
Collection of full text leading Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires, biographies and reference books.
A series of short books on serious public interest topics by great New Zealand writers.
This database covers interments in Christchurch City Council managed cemeteries. Apart from some on Banks Peninsula, church cemeteries are not included. There are very few records for the Barbadoes Street cemetery listed. Cremation details are not included in this database unless there was an ashes burial.
Details of interments from Christchurch City Council cemeteries compiled by the Greenspace Unit of the Christchurch City Council.
CINCH, Community INformation CHristchurch contains information for around 6,000 organisations, course providers and individuals.
A deep analysis of New Zealand's big issues, social, environmental and political.
A comprehensive multimedia reference source for high school and tertiary students that searches across multiple eResources in a single search.
A comprehensive index of New Zealand artist names that directs researchers to further information sources.
findNZarticles provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals.
An index of abstracts and descriptions of articles in New Zealand publications from the 1950's to the present in English, and from September 2007 in te reo Māori.
Explore Kete Christchurch, create topics, add images, documents, audio and video. Comment on existing material and connect your stories with others.
Copies of issues of the New Zealand Gazette and related publications from 1841 to the present. Available in PDF format. Access this at any of our libraries.
Only available at Christchurch City Libraries
We no longer subscribe to the Knowledge Basket version, you can now access this via the University of Auckland website.
The MLCMBI is an index to the volumes of Māori Land Court Minute Books produced by The Māori Land Court — Te Kooti Whenua Māori. The Māori Land Court Minute Books contain judges' notes on court sittings from 1865 to 1910 from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Māori Land Court Districts.
Physical copies of the South Island and Chatham Island minutes are held in the Ngā Pounamu Māori Centre. The entire collection is available at the Macmillan Brown Library.
Over 600 in-depth features about our country, natural history and culture. Also includes NZGeo TV which contains hundreds of hours of natural history video.
Access major and authoritative New Zealand history and biography published by Bridget Williams Books.
A collection of searchable indexes related to New Zealand science, industry, news, politics and fine arts.
A sign language reference collection including accounts of the deaf experience.
The largest online collection of national, regional, rural, and local news sources from across the North and South Islands.
Natural history videos focused on New Zealand's people, places, wildlife and environment. Part of New Zealand Geographic Archive.
An index to selected articles, obituaries and reviews published in The Press, Christchurch Mail, Christchurch Star, Star Midweek and Star Weekender.
Digitised New Zealand newspapers, periodicals, letters, diaries and parliamentary papers from 1839 to 1945. Coverage includes The Press from 1861 to December 1945.
The Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR), sometimes known as "the A to Js", is a collection of government-related reports published every year from 1858.
The three volumes of the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives (1854-1856) preceded the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHRs).
Te Kerēme is a selective index to the Ngāi Tahu claim.
Te Puna is a web-based search service giving access to what is held in New Zealand libraries and worldwide.
A collection of searchable electronic reference books on the Treaty of Waitangi from leading thinkers on this foundational document.
A collection of New Zealand women's history and publishing through a female lens.
