Auckland Museum is host to more than 100 fragments of Sir Edmund Hillary's life. Here are 10 objects from Auckland Museum's Hillary collection.

One hundred years ago, a teenaged Josip Babich removed the boots in which he'd trudged through muddy swamps searching for kauri gum - and trampled delicate grapes with his bare feet.

A painting that symbolises the pain and tragedy of the failed World War I Gallipoli campaign was sold yesterday to an undisclosed bidder.

79: When World War I broke out, Harper was a 35-year-old father of two and partner at a well-established Christchurch legal practice.

Devotees still have time to dive back into the over-sexed and over-boozed world of Don Draper, the square-jawed executive atop Sterling Cooper, played by Jon Hamm.

Dug out of a car park five centuries after his mutilated body was unceremoniously interred, England's Richard III will finally be given a burial fit for a king.

The man hailed as the "Father of Auckland" was modest and meticulous and liked to keep the record straight when it came to tales of his noble deeds.

What has happened to the gun turret of the Achilles which was on display at a scrap metal yard in Neilson St in Onehunga?

It is spring in Tokyo, but Toshiko Takagi cannot bear to see office workers sitting beneath cherry blossom in the parks that dot the Sumida district where she lives.

This year Auckland very successfully celebrated its 175th birthday. But did we celebrate on the right day?

On March 20, Napoleon Bonaparte will once more set foot on the cobbled streets of Paris, the staging point of his plan to rout his enemies and recover the empire he lost.

The Protected Objects Act plays an important role in safeguarding this country's heritage. But there will be times when the ministry should not be straitjacketed by the act.

Hundreds of thousands of German women were raped by British, American and French soldiers after the end of the Second World War, a German historian has claimed.

An exhibition about the Kiwi overseas experience shows New Zealanders have been exploring the world since the early 1900s.

The Gallipoli centennial starts on the Auckland waterfront on Friday when the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth sets up a "poppy wall" which will sail with the ship to Turkey.

Auckland and NZ have won international fame for our America's Cup and round-the-world yachtsmen. Suzanne McFadden charts the way the city and gulf have helped our sailors graduate from banana boxes to world-beaters.

There was only one thing that mildly irked Joyce Irving when she got her performance schedule for A Midsummer Night's Dream: she wouldn't appear every night.

Historians and prophets, by the nature of their vocations, tend to look in opposite directions, writes Paul Moon.

64: War-weary soldiers forgot their troubles when they saw the New Zealand Pierrots take to the stage.

Few people know just how close the Auckland Harbour Bridge came to being lost in the very body of water it was designed to span.

Spain planned to attack Britain's new colony in Australia with a 100-vessel armada as part of an operation to "take the fight to the British in the Pacific", documents show.

Opinion: The disconnect I feel on Australia Day is not a rejection of history. Rather, it is a rejection of the privileging of one version of history at the expense of another.

Jozef Paczynski recalls the "welcome" speech the deputy commandant of Auschwitz gave on his arrival in 1940, down to the last chilling word.

"When I left the CIA, if you were going to ask me, 'Would you write about espionage?' I'd say, 'Absolutely not.' So why are former CIA officers turning up in Hollywood?

62: William Clachan was made of tough stuff. The Wellington schoolteacher was wounded three times on the Western Front.

Philanthropist and economist Gareth Morgan has set out two challenges to the Government at his first visit to Ratana Pa.