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Sydney's first ice
Delivery of ice in the city, 1898-1905. By Frederick Danvers Power. From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales. A422009 / ON 225, 22. Where would we be without ice? It's not something we give much thought to…
Wonderland City
Bondi Beach pleasure park, at Tamarama c1890. By C G Coulter. From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, A4302001/V1A/Bond/1, Mitchell Library Lisa joined Jack Crane on 2SER breakfast this morning to explore Sydney's first outdoor amusement park, Wonderland…
Pass the hat!
Pic courtesy Blue Mountains City Library, Local Studies Collection PF 2152-30 via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) GiveNow Week, 1-8 December 2013 GiveNow Week is here and The Dictionary of Sydney is gearing up for a great week of giving as we prepare…
Australia's first composer
size-medium wp-image-6068Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer, 1820. Contributed by National Library of Australia [nla.pic-an2292675]http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/IsaacNathan-226x300.pngIsaac Nathan, Australia's first composer, 1820. Contributed by National Library of Australia [nla.pic-an2292675]226300/> Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer, 1820. Contributed by National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an2292675 This morning on…
John York and the Sydney Brass Instrument Factory
John York’s shop at 52 George Street West, Chippendale c1906 A new issue of the Sydney Journal, the Dictionary of Sydney's peer-reviewed scholarly publication, has just been released - it's a special issue edited by Matthew Bailey and Paul Ashton based…
Corroboree Sydney
Corroboree Sydney 2013, 14-24 November Celebrating culture and connecting people From the 14-24 November, Sydney will be hosting the inaugural Corroboree Sydney festival of Indigenous arts and culture. Directed by Hetti Perkins, the festival features leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists,…
Bennelong's story
Portrait of Bennelong, signed "W.W." , courtesy Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW a1256013 / DGB 10, f13 Corroboree, a new Sydney Indigenous cultural festival kicks off on the 14th November (this Thursday) so this morning on 2SER Breakfast with Tim…
An early cartoon celebrity
This morning on 2SER with Tim Higgins, I reached into my bag of tricks and pulled out another great Sydney story - the origins of the cartoon character Felix The Cat. Pat Sullivan and his wife, Marjorie with entries for the…
Celebrating Sydney's oral histories
40 – 44 Buckland St, Chippendale, 1915. Image courtesy of the City of Sydney This morning on 2SER breakfast, Tim and I talked about oral history in anticipation of today's launch of the City of Sydney's Sydney Oral Histories website. Oral…
The Sydney Journal
Sydney Journal, Vol 3, No 1 (2010) Vol 4, No 1 (2013): From the Ground Up: People and Places in Sydney’s Past: A special issue of Sydney Journal is available here.…