Master Class In Diorama Making By Former Art Teacher Walking through the doors of Tāwhiti Museum, you might at first think you’re entering a normal local museum of old machinery, vintage farm gear and historical artefacts. But it doesn't take long to ...
An Australian Highlander At The Battle of Waterloo In June 2015 the 200th Anniversary of the Battle Of Waterloo was held on the original battlefield in Belgium, and the event attracted thousands of Napoleonic re-enactors and living history ...
The Battle For Les Quesnoy - 1918 On 4 November 1918, several days before the Armistice, the small town of Le Quesnoy in northern France was liberated by New Zealand troops from four years of German occupation. The town held 1,500 ...
Did Any Women Fight At The Battle Of Waterloo? There were many women present on the battlefield of Waterloo on the 18th June 1815 (as there were on many battlefields throughout history), including some pregnant women. However it has always been a ...
Jousting For The Pleasure Of The Sport From the full force, full contact medieval joust to the discipline and grit of the early 20th century New Zealand Mounted Rifles, The Order of the Boar is New Zealand’s own cavalry re-enactment ...
Who Beat The French Imperial Guard At Waterloo As the Battle of Waterloo reached its momentous climax, Napoleon’s Imperial Guard marched towards the Duke of Wellington’s thinning red line. The Imperial Guard had never tasted defeat and nothing, ...
The Band Of The Imperial Guard The Christian Hymn "Amazing Grace" was only married together with its (now) recognisable melody late in the 19th Century. What we now recognise as the hymn's tune is in fact an earlier melody titled ...
More History Articles Coming Soon The HAFU website has recently undergone a major upgrade and transformation, so we're still working through a backlog of articles which need to be updated for the new platform. There will be more here ...
