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• Main trunk railway line

  Construction of the South Island Railway:  a Stop-Start Journey Parochialism and politics, the Great Depression and two World Wars meant that completion of the South Island’s Main Trunk Line was...

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• New Zealand’s first game of rugby

  The crowd of Nelsonians gathered at The Botanics one May day in 1870 had no idea that they were witnessing the birth of a New Zealand tradition, rugby.....  ...

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• Suffragettes

  A woman who concealed her true identity under the pen name Femina was New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist. A few years later the founding principal of Nelson College for...

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• Wearable Art

  Taking art off the wall and onto the moving bodyTM in rural Nelson in 1987 led to the establishment of one of New Zealand's premier cultural extravaganzas that...

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• The Bishop Suter Art Gallery

  The death of a bishop, and the determination of his widow to found a gallery in his name for the people of Nelson, led to the establishment of...

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