Nau mai, rāhiri mai ki Papers Past

Nau mai, piki mai koutou e whai ana i te hīnātore o te mātauranga,
kia āta hīkina ēnei mātauranga kia puta ki te ao mārama,
ā, kia pūmahara ki tōna whakamahinga,
hei tauherenga atu,
i nga wā o mua ki te wā a muri ake nei.

Welcome to Papers Past

Welcome to all who are pursuing the spark of knowledge
Carefully uplift this knowledge in to the world of light
And use it wisely
As a link
From the past to the future.

Papers Past delivers digitised full-text New Zealand and Pacific newspapers, magazines and journals, books, and other formats.

Ngā Niupepa
Newspapers

Crop of front page of Daily Southerrn Cross focusing on masthead

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

Ngā Maheni me ngā Hautaka
Magazines and Journals

Four issues of the magazine Te Ao Hou arranged in a fan shape

Digitised NZ magazines and journals covering a range of subjects

Ngā Reta me ngā Rātaka
Letters and Diaries

Crop from a 1848 letter written in te reo Māori to Donald McLean

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

Ngā Pepa nō te Whare Pāremata
Parliamentary Papers

Close up of a historic book spine reading "New Zealand Appendix to the Journals, H. R."

Digitised reports from the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives

Ngā Pukapuka
Books

Opened volume of the Forest Flora of New Zealand

Digitised New Zealand books in English and te reo Māori