OUR UNTOLD STORIES

Our Untold Stories is a collection of interesting, informative, entertaining, amusing, inspiring, tragic and fascinating stories from New Zealand’s past — stories which have been largely forgotten or were unknown.

For more than 40 years, former journalist Tom Clarke has been gathering stories for a Today in History New Zealand series for use by radio station on-air hosts. Compiling that involved research into our past, digging deep into many old and forgotten sources, including long-gone magazines and newspapers, and even personal family stories from friends and associates, many of which presented tantalising hints of enchanting events and people from long ago, leading to extensive research to uncover the stories.

From tales of wartime to deeply moving human tragedies and disasters, maritime adventures and misadventures, stories of scandals and scoundrels, and all kinds of significant milestones and happenings, this is social history at its best, including a rich archive of photographic and illustrative material to complement the stories.