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Sir Henry Parkes 1896

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Gladstone Eyre
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a928710 / DG 348]

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Eyre, Gladstone

State Library of New South Wales

English

Sydney has been seen as an 'English' town since first European settlement, with visitors describing its English character well into the nineteenth century. Successive waves of English-born convicts, settlers, and assisted immigrants helped shape the city, and the English remain the largest overseas-born group.

Politics

State government

Australian Federation

Parkes, Henry

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The preeminent politician of nineteenth-century Sydney, who was a minister, premier and one of the architects of Australian federation.