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Finding your way through the Dictionary, part 1
This is the first in a series of posts designed to give our readers a bit of a guided tour around the Dictionary, and to help readers get more out of the site. There's a lot more in there than…
Dictionary of Sydney wins continued support from City of Sydney
Dictionary of Sydney staff are jumping with joy today! Image: Boys skipping rope in Kepos Street, Redfern 1952, City of Sydney Archives, 058//058933 City of Sydney Council debated the continued funding of the Dictionary of Sydney at Council's meeting on Monday…
City of Sydney Council meets tonight to discuss the future of the Dictionary of Sydney
Mrs Daisy Larkin, postwoman on horse, Jannali 1954, National Archives of Australia, C4078, N5539 http://dictionaryofsydney.org/item/71703 The City of Sydney Council meets tonight, so there's still time to email or call (details below) and congratulate them on their support of the Dictionary…
When too much sport is barely enough
Decima Norman, Empire Games, Sydney 1938, from the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, a128302 / Home and Away 17822 The Olympics are upon us again, and will have an echo in Sydney, despite being at the other…
Funding hiatus threatens Dictionary
The Dictionary of Sydney is under serious threat. Despite our long and productive relationship with the City of Sydney, and the support of Council, the City is considering withholding the 2012 -13 tranche of the five-year funding voted to the…
Letter writing campaign
The Dictionary of Sydney is under serious threat and needs your support. Despite our long and productive relationship with the City of Sydney, and the support of Council, the City is considering withholding the 2012 -13 tranche of the five-year funding voted…
Clans, campsites and the Koori Knockout
Natives of New South Wales, Biddy Salamander of the Broken Bay Tribe, Bulkabra Chief of Botany, Gooseberry Queen of Bungaree, watercolour drawing by Charles Rodius, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW a1114010 / SAFE / PXA 615, 6 Histories of…
Mechanics' business
The new Workmen's College at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in the Illustrated Sydney News, 14 June 1879, p 4 'The room is fitted up with all manner of scientific apparatus and specimens of nature, among which we noticed…
New faces
'Constance Kent, the murderess', State Library of Victoria Acc No: H41038 The new people in the Dictionary of Sydney are a mixed bunch indeed. Apart from the City of Sydney mayors I've already blogged about, we have a few other new faces. Noeline…
Suburban idylls
Greenwich Road, Greenwich c1908, State Records NSW ref: 18526_a024_000037 The new material in the Dictionary includes some new suburbs, old and new. Bradfield is a suburb that has disappeared, subsumed into the surrounding areas of West Killara and West Lindfield. Joan Rowland tells the…