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The wearing of the green
The Irish Emigrant by ST Gill, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW PX*D 384, 12 / a1833016 The Dictionary's going green! In one of our exciting new projects, we’ve been lucky enough to work on a joint project to boost…
Audacious!
'Audaciousville : the story of Dacey Garden Suburb, Australia's first public housing estate' by Samantha Sinnayah, City of Botany Bay Council One of our authors and a great supporter of the project, Sam Sinnayah, has just published a book based on…
Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 8
What could possibly be left to say about the navigation of the Dictionary of Sydney? There are a few things, which I'll wrap up into this final post in our series. Reading the Dictionary on the road Take the Dictionary with you Did…
Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 7
Click Subjects in the Browse panel In this day and age, when Search is all important and everyone consults Professor Google at the first opportunity, the great virtues and pleasures of a Subject index are a little eclipsed. Not if you are…
Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 6
There are more pathways into the Dictionary's content, although some of these are still under construction. Working on the footpath upgrade, Pitt Street, July 1999. Contributed by City of Sydney Archives (017625) Browse Roles is one of these byways, giving you a…
New content in the Dictionary
Our usual September regeneration of the site has added another 22,000 words of text, and hundreds of new images, links, entities and more. This rebuild takes the total number of words in Dictionary entries over the magic million mark, (although…
Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 5
The demographics edition. You knew we were going to get onto statistics eventually, didn't you? One of the ambitious things about the Dictionary is the way that it aims to become one of the sources about Sydney's history itself, not just…
Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 4
The people who have written the text, contributed the multimedia and supported the projects of the Dictionary are among our favourite people. You can find out more about them in the Contributors Browse, at the bottom of the right hand…
Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 3
Let's talk about maps. The Dictionary has many kinds. You will have noticed the maps that appear on entity pages that have geographic information. Here's an example. Darlinghurst entity page, DoSThe blue shape shows the boundaries of the suburb, and is overlaid on…
Hidden journeys, uncovered
Sydney, courtesy of NASA, from www.hiddenjourneys.co.uk Have you ever wondered about the landscape, cities and places you fly over as you travel by air around Australia and the world? Wouldn't it be great to be able to see images and read…