Digitised Papers on Papers Past

Digitisation not only enables preservation, it also gives voice to a range of communities that might otherwise be lost, opens online access, and provides new methods for discovering and reusing knowledge.

Following digitisation, these pages will be made accessible to the public, free, and online. In partnership with the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa; digitised pages will be available via Papers Past, the National Library’s digitised archive of historical documents.

While we wait for the images to uploaded onto Papers Past you can visit the Trust’s Recollect site to gain immediate access to some of the digitised newspapers.

Papers Past is a well-regarded and well-used resource that includes digital copies of over seven million pages of newspapers published since 1840. It offers an accessible way to search newspaper stories from Aotearoa New Zealand. The project will connect with the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) administered by the National Library which digitally preserves a range of documentary heritage, including digitised newspapers.