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Liverpool: A trip down Penny Lane

Sheriden Rhodes has a pilgrimage to Liverpool to find the Beatles – and her dad.

Janet McAllister: Art before art history began

My Auckland: Glen Innes

Tamati Patuwai (Ngati Whatua) tells Elisabeth Easther what he loves about living in Glen Innes, and how much the area has changed since he was a boy

Rock art needs protection: expert

A visiting world-renowned French prehistorian has backed calls to protect New Zealand's Maori rock art, describing some of our centuries-old works as powerful.

Dame Anne Salmond: Separating free market wolves from the lambs

Adam Smith, the Enlightenment thinker who invented the idea of the free market, was an incisive economic commentator.

Ancestral journey to farewell Scott revisited

English environmentalist Zoe Young has repeated the journey her grandmother made in 1913 to mourn the death of her husband, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole.

Kiwi defenders of Richard III celebrate discovery

Shackleton recreation inspires fresh awe

John Key reflects on Holocaust

Prime Minister John Key shared tales of his Jewish mother's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria at the United Holocaust Memorial Day event this morning.

Darwin's forgotten rival

Alfred Russel Wallace is far from a household name, but he changed the world.

NZ woman who claims to have Ned Kelly's skull holds wake

An old wrong made right as Ned gets burial service

More than 200 Kelly descendants, and dozens of public onlookers and regular churchgoers, attended the noon service dedicated to the bushranger at St Patrick's Church in the Victorian town of Wangaratta. The family will bury Kelly's bones in an unmarked gr

Weather halts start to Key's Antarctic adventure

Last respects for Ned Kelly

League: Classic tours from a memorable era

A&P's summer show stoppers