Hidden in the centre of downtown Tauranga, The Elms | Te Papa Tauranga is one of New Zealand’s most significant heritage sites — a place where rich Māori history and early missionary settlement converge.

Author Sarah Ell reveals its secrets in The Spirit of a Place, a new history which sheds light on its more than six hundred years of significant and, at times, turbulent history, and the people who made it their home and preserved it as the city grew around it.

This talk with Sarah offers a rare glimpse into Tauranga’s layered past.