Publications

Ngā tuhituhinga

celebrating 20 years — **Heritage South. See ‘Celebrating 20 years of the Southland oral history project’, NOHANZ Newsletter February 2026. Photo: Maree Haggerty**

Newsletters

Pānui

The quarterly NOHANZ newsletter is a digital communication that keeps our members in contact with one another. The newsletters are full of information about current issues, forthcoming events, regional meetings, conferences, grants and training opportunities.

For more information and submission of material for the newsletter please see The NOHANZ Newsletter at the link below.

The nohanz newsletter

Journal

Hautaka

Oral History in New Zealand is an annual publication and
the editorial team welcome submissions. These include articles and reports about oral history research projects, and reviews of books, documentaries, exhibitions and podcasts.

More information about the journal and how to submit material, the biennial prize in oral history, and the previous issues of the journal please see Oral History in New Zealand Journal.

ORAl history in new zealand journal

jack curtis cropped — **‘Tools of his trade – A portal into the life of drover Jack Curtis’, Oral History in New Zealand (2023), and joint prize-winner of the NOHANZ Prize in Oral History 2024. Photo: Ruth Low**

seismic stories — Hurunui Seismic Stories, Amuri Community Arts Council, 2020. See prize-winning report by Emily Anderson and Helen Frizzell in Oral History in New Zealand (2020). Photo: Emily Anderson and Natasha Shearer

Books & Articles

He pukapuka, he kōrero ā-tuhi

Oral historians have published books, book chapters, and journal articles on a wide range of oral history research topics in and about Aotearoa New Zealand.

A comprehensive list of these publications from 1978 – 2024 may be found here:

1978 – 2024

And new oral history books, chapters and articles published from 2024 onwards can be found here:

2024 onwards

International and national best practice resources found here:

view here

If you wish to find a specific book to interloan look up the World Catalogue online, sign on, and you should be able to access a list of places where the book is held in New Zealand. You can interloan books through your local library.

Exhibitions, Documentaries & Podcasts

He īpāho, he whakaaturanga

Increasingly oral historians are working with audio-visual media, including exhibitions, documentaries and podcasts produced
for both public and educational purposes.

Some examples are discussed in
Exhibitions, Documentaries, and Podcasts.

Exhibitions

documentaries

podcasts