Friday, January 21, 2011

National Library of NZ - Papers Past

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.
There are two main ways to find information in Papers Past: searching and browsing. Searching lets you enter a query term and retrieves articles that contain that term. Browsing lets you look at all the newspapers, starting with a year, a region, or a newspaper title. All the newspaper titles on the site can be searched and browsed.
Looking through these old newspapers is fascinating and quite addictive.
Feel free to leave a comment below, maybe you found a story you'd like to share with others.


1 comment:

  1. Hi Linda, Thanks for this. I did a search of Felicity's musical ancestors, The Tahiwis and came across quite a bit. I couldn't get over the number of typos back then though, but maybe the maori words were a bit confusing.

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