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Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney
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Roxy Theatre facade, Parramatta c1970

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Roxy Theatre facade, Parramatta c1970

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John Aloysius Mulligan

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National Library of Australia

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Mulligan, John Aloysius

National Library of Australia

Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

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Inter-War architecture

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Parramatta

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Western suburb built on the land of the Burramattagal people. Sydney's second European settlement, it began as a government farm in 1788 and has many heritage listed sites. It is now the commercial hub of Greater Western Sydney.

Roxy Theatre Parramatta

Spanish-mission style cinema that opened in 1930. It was placed on the New South Wales Heritage Register in 1999.

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