Items from the Titanic, including a lunch menu grabbed by a survivor, have been sold at auction.

Work is to start on removing human bones from a restaurant building site at Auckland's Long Bay Regional Park.

How did the 19th century murder of a vivacious young Englishwoman affect the invasion of a Maori pacifist settlement one year later?

On the afternoon of October 6, 1915, Leslie Beauchamp, a New Zealander in the British Army, gave a class in grenade throwing. He didn't survive it.

Why stay home in the holidays? Catherine Smith checks out the Heritage Festival's highlights.

Standing in the light of a gas lamp and pressing your nose against window panes to peer into a quaint colonial shop or cottage will become a thing of the past for visitors to Auckland Museum.

Forgotten for nearly 500 years, the sheet music owned by Henry VIII's second wife could shed new light on her life - and loves, says Ivan Hewett.

The Auckland Council is holding the line on rules to protect the city's built heritage after being advised they are a burden on landowners seeking to develop their properties.

Veterans who today marked 70 years since the end of World War Two in the Pacific say people haven't learned enough lessons from the war.

After 35 years a violin worth millions finally makes its way home.

If there is one event that defines the modern world, it is the blinding, searing, radioactive explosion over the city of Hiroshima 70 years ago today.

Seventy years on, the feared nuclear Armageddon has been kept in check - but a new threat is mounting, writes Alexander Gillespie.

I've written, enough times to make it seem memorable, of hikers, hunters, divers and cavers coming unexpectedly upon human bones.

Neglected Campbell Island seems to me like New Zealand's planet Pluto.

And before the advent of local anaesthetic, the process of treating them sounds fairly miserable.

Grant Bradley revisits a long-held interest with a tour of Colditz, the German castle which housed POWs during World War II.

The 30th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior sinking is on July 10. Suzanne McFadden looks at the problems Auckland faced in containing its most renowned prisoners.

In Auckland's 175th anniversary year, Suzanne McFadden examines an issue vexing Aucklanders perhaps now more than ever - property.

Isis jihadists have planted mines around the ancient ruins in Syria's Palmyra, prompting fears for the Unesco World Heritage site.

Pam Neville finds the spirit of Joan Baez still lingers in Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel.

King's School in Auckland is to replace its old boarding house and clock tower with a $30 million glass-fronted building with views of Rangitoto Island.

Paul Lewis looks at the link between the city's growth and the ASB, a sponsor of this series.

Despite Magna Carta's venerable character, its written contribution to present New Zealand law is relatively thin, writes Stephen Winter.

Suzanne McFadden discovers just how much the city changed to host American servicemen during WWII.

Andrew Stone goes in search of his ethnic roots with the help of science and a little bit of saliva.

93: A soldier plagued by wartime foot injuries later had an Auckland rugby league trophy named after him - the William Devanney Stormont Shield.

Suzanne McFadden revisits the occupation of Bastion Point, a defining moment in the Maori land struggles of the 1970s.