Sarah Johnston
@soundsold.bsky.social
Sound history. Researching WWII radio and listening in Aotearoa New Zealand. Blogs at worldwarvoices.wordpress.com. Toitū te Tiriti.
Shared some NZ voices from post-war Japan for #VJDay www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Commemorating 80 years since Victory over Japan Day
Today marks eighty years since VJ Day - Victory over Japan Day - when Japan surrendered and World War Two ended. Post-war, twelve thousand New Zealand troops went to Japan to 'de-militarise' the count...
www.rnz.co.nz
August 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Shared some NZ voices from post-war Japan for #VJDay www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
A wee update for World War Voices - and why I’m currently listening to post-war Japan worldwarvoices.wordpress.com
World War Voices
Recordings of New Zealanders at war, 1940-1945
worldwarvoices.wordpress.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A wee update for World War Voices - and why I’m currently listening to post-war Japan worldwarvoices.wordpress.com
Come and listen to WWII NZ nurses with me this Anzac Day ashburtonmuseum.co.nz/event/with-t...
“With the Girls Overseas” – the voices of World War II New Zealand nurses - Ashburton Museum
Join us for a special Anzac Day talk with Sarah Johnston, where she will shed light on the voices of New Zealand nurses from the Second World War. Sound historian Sarah Johnston is researching recordi...
ashburtonmuseum.co.nz
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Come and listen to WWII NZ nurses with me this Anzac Day ashburtonmuseum.co.nz/event/with-t...
Reposted by Sarah Johnston
Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.
December 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.
New Zealand journalist Private David Finlayson visited Pearl Harbour shortly before the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. On his return to NZ he recorded what he had seen and heard in Hawai’i. He was killed in action in Italy two years later. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...
The Bombing Of Pearl Harbour
The Bombing of Pearl Harbour - Before and After the Japanese Attack by Pte. D. S. Finlayson. In this recording New Zealander David Spencer Finlayson gives a first-hand account of Pearl Harbour before ...
www.ngataonga.org.nz
December 7, 2024 at 6:26 PM
New Zealand journalist Private David Finlayson visited Pearl Harbour shortly before the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. On his return to NZ he recorded what he had seen and heard in Hawai’i. He was killed in action in Italy two years later. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...
Back in 2014 I first heard this archived recording of 1942 BBC broadcast to NZ. It is only a 4 minute fragment but the stories it can tell about WW2, empire and most of all, families, is powerful. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...
Hello Children - greeting programme, 1942-05-06
This is a greetings programme broadcast shortwave by the BBC to New Zealand, for children from the United Kingdom who had been sent to live in New Zealand during World War Two. It consists of an unide...
www.ngataonga.org.nz
December 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Back in 2014 I first heard this archived recording of 1942 BBC broadcast to NZ. It is only a 4 minute fragment but the stories it can tell about WW2, empire and most of all, families, is powerful. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...
Working with heritage collections is a privilege. We sometimes are lucky enough to see archives and databases connecting families across time. www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial...
A message home: Connecting whānau through Online Cenotaph
In 2024, sound history researcher Sarah Johnston shared a poignant story about a World War II sound disc that reconnected the family of Daniel Joseph Clifford, a young New Zealand airman, with the voi...
www.aucklandmuseum.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Working with heritage collections is a privilege. We sometimes are lucky enough to see archives and databases connecting families across time. www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial...