New additions to Papers Past

Lyttelton Times

Heaps of new content has been added to Papers Past including the Lyttelton Times from 1851-1862.  There are now 7 papers on the site covering the Canterbury region between 1851 and 1921.

Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 61 publications from all regions of New Zealand. You can search the site by keyword or browse by year, region or newspaper title.

 

NZMuseums go live

NZMuseums has relaunched itself – an initiative of the Museum of New Zealand.

We recognise that museums must keep up with the times, and alongside the National Digital Content Strategy for New Zealand we are enabling the museums of New Zealand, in particular the several hundred small volunteer-run museums throughout the country, to have a global presence through the Web.

You can find things by region – like Canterbury or find objects relating to places like christchurch or canterbury, or find subjects like  pounamu or clothing.

Organisations like the Canterbury Museum, the Kowhai Archive, Waimate Museum or the Ashburton Museum can now publish aspects of their collection online.