#nzhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nzhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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"'New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The Video Dispatch. We went from having 95% of our footwear made locally in the late 1980s to only 5% by 2008. These days it’s certainly even less than that."
#Aotearoa #NZHistory #Shoes #Shoemakers #Footwear #MadeInNZ
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-05-2026/whos-still-making-footwear-in-aotearoa
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"'New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The Video Dispatch. We went from having 95% of our footwear made locally in the late 1980s to only 5% by 2008. These days it’s certainly even less than that."
#Aotearoa #NZHistory #Shoes #Shoemakers #Footwear #MadeInNZ
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-05-2026/whos-still-making-footwear-in-aotearoa
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"'New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The Video Dispatch. We went from having 95% of our footwear made locally in the late 1980s to only 5% by 2008. These days it’s certainly even less than that."
#Aotearoa #NZHistory #Shoes #Shoemakers #Footwear #MadeInNZ
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-05-2026/whos-still-making-footwear-in-aotearoa
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"'New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The Video Dispatch. We went from having 95% of our footwear made locally in the late 1980s to only 5% by 2008. These days it’s certainly even less than that."
#Aotearoa #NZHistory #Shoes #Shoemakers #Footwear #MadeInNZ
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-05-2026/whos-still-making-footwear-in-aotearoa
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"“The plans originally came to the Council as part of the consent process – with the earliest dating back to the No 1 Pumphouse in 1881. ..."
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In collaboration with Christchurch City Libraries some of the plans in the collection have been digitised, with still more to come.Search the collection online via ArchivesSpace, explore the digitised plans or learn more at Christchurch City Council Archives : Christchurch City Council."
#NZHistory #Architecture #Ōtautahi
https://www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/archives-preserve-citys-architectural-plans
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#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.
Until 1975, electors of Māori descent could only vote in one of the four Māori seats unless they had one Māori and one European parent.
More about the Māori seats here: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/setting-maori-seats
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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I love this Podcast. In this episode it tells the story of how New Zealand getting MMP was in no small part due to a mistake... It also charts the rise of some bloke named Winston Peters.
The series (both 1 & 2) should be required listening for all Kiwi, not just imports like me to (re)learn our modern history.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-11-2025/juggernaut-2-the-wild-story-of-the-first-mmp-election
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CW: NZPol Pay equity
"He explained: the “principal argument against equal pay is based on economic factors … rather than the moral principle, (which is) of paramount importance. Right down through history, we have heard the same old argument. Removing children from mines and factories, the eight-hour day, the 40-hour week, annual holidays for all workers.”"
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CW: NZPol Pay equity
"He explained: the “principal argument against equal pay is based on economic factors … rather than the moral principle, (which is) of paramount importance. Right down through history, we have heard the same old argument. Removing children from mines and factories, the eight-hour day, the 40-hour week, annual holidays for all workers.”"
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CW: NZPol Bastion Point
"The Takaparawhau green ban was an example of a successful practical alliance between indigenous people and unions, .... Its apparent defeat due to state repression turned into a win when, after a Waitangi Tribunal hearing in 1987, the government eventually returned most of Takaparawhau to Ngāti Whātua – the land had remained undeveloped, and the green ban remained in force after the eviction. "
#NZHistory #GreenBan #BastionPoint #NZPol #Unions
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-09-2025/the-forgotten-union-green-ban-that-defended-bastion-point
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Today is #RāMaumahara (our national day of remembrance of the #NZWars) so I visited the sites of the Battle of Ōrākau and attack on Rangiaowhia, driving past Nixon, Grey, Carey, Bryce, Whitaker and Whitmore Streets on my way.
If you want to visit, either in-person or virtually, I can recommend Te Ara Wai: Journeys
https://tearawai.nz/explore-rangiaowhiaorakau
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@essjax I find the grammar fail less less troubling than the historical insensitivity. Naming a restaurant chain in the Waikato after a symbol of #NZWars oppression shows not only ignorance of grammar, but also of #NZHistory.
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CW: NZPol NZHistory Maunganui Bluff
"Maunganui Bluff belongs to the iwi Te Roroa, even though for a time it was taken from their hands. It’s difficult to say where this story begins, so we’re going to start in the 1870s. Humans and their histories are complex. We will need to simplify a little.
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Before we start, we need to cover some important context - and maybe dispel a myth or two." -
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#FinishedReading #MichaelKing 's biography of Te Puea Herangi, indefatigable organiser of the Māori King movement in the first half of the 20th century. Her forceful charisma, flaws and all, pops off the page in the hands of NZ's most iconic historian. The scale of change in her lifetime for Waikato Māori and NZ is fascinating, as are the insights into other prominent figures like Apirana Ngata and Gordon Coates. #Bookstodon @bookstodon #NZHistory
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Margaret Cruickshank, New Zealand’s first registered woman doctor. ~I'd never heard her story until reading this piece by @ShayneParkinson
Have a read! #NewZealand #woman #women #female #doctor #nzhistory #Waimate
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Something that #NZHistory #NZ #Aotearoa #Aotearoadons including myself find hard to fathom: The 1871 England Census index, which contains a list of the streets listed in Worcestershire in the census, giving the town, street name, and parish they are listed in...JUST for the Worcestershire borough is 1213 pages long!! There were not even that many streets in the entirety of Te Wai Pounamu (the whole of the South Island) then, let alone in one province of it! #EarlySettlerHistory
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#CW #Colonialism Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I do hope I get some consideration for why I am asking... had someone turn up here today telling me I can't write my local history without reading "Before the Māori", some (I believe) apparent bullsh!t about govt and #GLAM coverups...sounds like a right conspiracy theory nutwingjob writer, but I have to ask... has any scholarly rebuttal been put out about this so called "professional" work? #NZTwits #Aotearoadons #Histadon #NZHistory