Sarah Johnston

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...

Shared some NZ voices from post-war Japan for #VJDay www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

World War Voices Recordings of New Zealanders at war, 1940-1945

A wee update for World War Voices - and why I’m currently listening to post-war Japan worldwarvoices.wordpress.com

“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...

Come and listen to WWII NZ nurses with me this Anzac Day ashburtonmuseum.co.nz/event/with-t...

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.

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Welcome! The weather has been great (finally) this week.

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 ...

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...

Finally, the “unidentified female broadcaster” presenting to programme is actually expat NZer Noni Wright who worked at the BBC during WW2 - but her story is worthy of its own post sometime www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

If anyone can suggest a good Scots genealogy forum for sharing the link, I’d be happy to post to try and reconnect these 80 year old voices @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social

We were contacted by the son of one of the Fell brothers, whose parents are heard on the recording. His father had emigrated to NZ after the war. But the other three Edinburgh families on it have probably never heard the recording.

“Hello Children” – Broadcasts to the British Child Evacuees of World War II Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Radio Collection contains hundreds of recordings made during World War II.

I became a wee bit obsessed with “Hello Children” and wrote a blog for Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision which is still on their website www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stor...

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...

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...

If there’s room for niche WW2 sound history, I post about NZ forces and broadcasting. Thanks!

Ooh just saw @aucklandmuseum.bsky.social is on here, so 👋

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...

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...

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If there’s another list, please add me. Forever waffling on about radio history: especially WWII, NZ, war correspondents, BBC etc.