Names not numbers

Christopher Pugsley, reflects on the upcoming Anzac Day in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, and how we still remember those who were killed during war and those returned service men and women from all conflicts.

Reflections in the Port: Pandemics & the Moana Cosmopolitan

Emily Parr reflects on the fifty three years that have passed between her and her great-great-grandmother; Louisa Kronfeld, and the stories and experiences that connect them across the Moananui-a-Kiwa.

Reflections from Māhia

The link between Rongomaiwahine’s fight against COVID-19 and my whanaunga’s World War 1 experience is how the memory of loss leads to the protection of whakapapa. In this piece Jason Renes explores his whānau biography and the memory of loss.

Unknown Warrior

Contemplating commemoration in a digital world

This article considers commemoration, distance, digital collections, & archival ethics—important questions for these strange times.