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Anniversary Day, Australia Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day
Aboriginal Day of Mourning, 26 January 1938 Man magazine, March 1938 Courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (a429002 / Q 059/9) The debate about the name and date of Australia Day has been contested for a very long time, and…
Lisa Murray, Sydney Cemeteries: A Field Guide
Lisa Murray, Sydney Cemeteries, A Field Guide NewSouth, Sydney, 2016, paperback $34.99 Written by Dr Lisa Murray (the City of Sydney Historian, the Dictionary's former chair, a Dictionary author and one of our regular radio presenters on 2SER), with gorgeous contemporary photographs by another Dictionary…
David Hunt, True Girt!
David Hunt, True Girt The Unauthorised History of Australia. Volume 2 Black Inc Books, 2016, ISBN 9781863958844, RRP $32.99, Paperback ‘Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country…
Housekeeping
Cleaning the clock on Sydney Town Hall, 21 April 1937 Courtesy City of Sydney Archives (NSCA CRS 46/2/32) As of December 2016, the Dictionary of Sydney office is no longer based at Benledi House on Glebe Point Road. We are sad…
Ice! Ice! Ice!
Advertisement for Watkins and Sparrow, Ice Importers 22 March 1853, Sydney Morning Herald 22 March 1853, p.3 Welcome back to the Dictionary on 2ser radio in 2017! This week Lisa & Nic talked about ice... Listen now We've been in heatwave conditions…
Sydenham Drainage Pit and Pumping Station No.001
Sydenham Pit and Drainage Pumping Station No.1 in 1948 Pic: Sydney Water This week on 2SER, special guest Dr Megan Hicks, Dictionary of Sydney author, museum consultant, Adjunct Fellow with the Urban Studies Program at Western Sydney University and lover of urban…
Sydney's Lost Cemeteries
We're very excited here at Dictionary HQ this week as Dr Lisa Murray (our former chair, Dictionary contributor, City of Sydney Historian, renowned taphophile and absolute all-round legend) has just launched her book Sydney Cemeteries: A Field Guide (published by NewSouth…
Inscriptions from our past
This week on 2SER Breakfast, Nic talked to a special guest of the Dictionary. Peter Hobbins is an historian of science, technology and medicine at the University of Sydney (who has recently written an entry for the Dictionary on naturalist JS…
Demolished Sydney
There’s an interesting exhibition on at the Museum of Sydney at the moment called ‘Demolished Sydney: Georgian town to global city’. It features the buildings and places that once shaped the city’s skyline and were demolished to make way for…
NAISDA celebrates 40 years
NAISDA Dance College is partnering with Carriageworks to celebrate NAISDA’s 40th anniversary with Circle of Cultures – a very special season which will take place at Carriageworks from 15-24 November 2016 Listen now Today I want to acknowledge a significant…