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A mandate of mayors
The most recent set of additions to the Dictionary includes biographies of the first 14 mayors of Sydney, written by consulting historian Terri McCormack, and they are certainly an interesting and varied bunch. Sydney was incorporated as a city in 1842,…
The new Dictionary of Sydney goes live
Wonderful Performance of Robert Taylor at Ashton's Circus, Illustrated Sydney News, 9 June 1855 The regular quarterly update to the Dictionary of Sydney has been made public at www.dictionaryofsydney.org today, and there's a lot of new material to have a look…
Growing and changing
Now that the Dictionary is so big and complex, it can be hard to see how it is changing. The raw figures are quite daunting: the Dictionary contains 572 articles totalling nearly 800,000 words, and has information on nearly 5,000…
More than one angle on Hyde Park Barracks
One of the unusual things about the Dictionary of Sydney is that entries are only one of several kinds of historical resources we include. You can find maps, video, audio, timelines, images and combinations of these. We can also include more than…
Bouncing around the Dictionary
What are those bouncing balls on our front page? The Dictionary's bouncing balls -- captured They were designed to provide a visual rendering of the ways in which all the elements of content in the Dictionary of Sydney are connected…
Out of the past and onto your screen
Welcome. This is the blog of the Dictionary of Sydney team. For over a year now, we've been publishing material on the Dictionary of Sydney's website, and finding out more about Sydney's history than any of us thought possible.…