Over the years we have gathered collections of materials that have a particular research focus, including:
- The 1981 Springbok Tour Archive (a digitized version of this is available via Kā Kohika).
- The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal Records (an HTML version of this inventory can be found here; it is also available via Kā Kohika).
- Jan Willem De Jong papers
- The Ron Every Papers
- The Karl Popper papers
- The Writing Research Aotearoa Archive
- Origins of New Zealand English Project Archives
- The Diary of Mr. Francis Hayter
- The Comber manuscript
- The R B Holmes collection (relating to the North West Frontier region of India)
- We also have papers relating to New Zealand's involvement in Military matters include the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War and the Boer War