Papers Past

Newspapers

Digitised NZ and Pacific newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries

Magazines and Journals

Serial publications published in NZ from 1868 through to 1975

Letters and Diaries

Selected letters and diaries, including the papers of Sir Donald McLean, 1820-1877

Parliamentary Papers

Reports and publications from New Zealand's House of Representatives

  1. New formats

    Papers Past now contains more than just newspapers. Use these links to navigate to other kinds of materials.

  2. Hierarchy

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  3. Search

    Enter names, places, or other keywords that you're curious about here. We'll look for them in the fulltext of millions of articles.

  4. Search

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  5. Search facets

    Use these buttons to limit your searches to particular dates, titles, and more.

  6. View selection

    Switch between images of the original document and text transcriptions and outlines you can cut and paste.

  7. Tools

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  8. Explore

    If you'd rather just browse through documents, click here to find titles and issues from particular dates and geographic regions.

  9. Where's the search?

    Since different kinds of materials have such widely varying search options, we've decided not to combine them into a single search.

  10. Start with Newspapers

    The "classic" Papers Past newspaper content and search can be found by clicking here…

  11. Then explore elsewhere

    …and be sure to use these links to carry over your most recent search term to another format.

  12. Need more help?

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