The illegitimate daughter of a 19th century British Prime Minister lived and raised a family in New Zealand.

It was 1995, and as Nelson Mandela raised his cap at jam-packed Ellis Park, the Johannesburg crowd rose in a deafening, spine-tingling cheer.

Library curator Robert Eruera has brought New Zealand literary treasures to the public.

History's account of the Third Reich and the extermination of millions of Jews in the Holocaust may have to undergo some revisions.

Twenty-five women from 21 countries became New Zealand citizens at Government House in Wellington yesterday.

An interactive map that plots where 18,000 New Zealand soldiers who died in World War I are buried has been created for a project marking the conflict's centenary.

The memories have come flooding back for three Korean War veterans before the opening of a special photo exhibition that features 150 images taken by Kiwi soldiers.

"I am the last man standing," mountaineer George Lowe wrote in his extraordinary collection of images from the first ascent of Everest.

An abandoned car found by a hunter in the Rangitaiki Forest has been eliminated from the Mona Blades inquiry.

Copper coins and a 70-year-old map with an "x" may lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history.

In hindsight, it may not have been such a good idea. No, Constable John Burton isn't hungover. He's not thirsty, nor just in a bad mood.

The Natural History Museum has about 300 experts on its staff.

It has taken more than 100 years to come to light, but the web of intrigue and corruption that toppled China's last emperor has finally been pieced together by a Chinese historian.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, weren't in Babylon at all - but were instead located 480km to the north in Babylon's greatest rival, Nineveh, according to a leading Oxford-based historian.

Sir Edmund Hillary's diaries from his ascent of Mt Everest will be released on a daily blog in the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the climb.

Ian Steven took the bait, and it landed him in a whole lot of trouble with his wife.

A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the Battle of Britain. Now, divers are braving dangerous tides to bring it to the surface.

Archaeologists say they have found physical proof that some of the earliest British settlers in America resorted to cannibalism to survive.

For centuries it was thought to be a legend - a city of extraordinary wealth referred to by Homer, visited by Helen of Troy and her lover Paris, but apparently lost under the sea.

On Anzac Day people in this part of the world commemorate the cost of war, loved ones lost, families ripped apart and lives forever changed, writes Ulrike McCullagh.

Harry "Middy" Middleton spoke very few words about the Great War.

It had been a long time since busy mum Kylie Perry had taken a day off work to stay home with her pair of boisterous pre-schoolers.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mt Everest, a new book published this week collects photographs from the other New Zealander in the 1953 British Everest Expedition.

Danielle Wright details some of the best Anzac parades and services in Auckland for families.