[et_pb_row admin_label="Row"][et_pb_column type="1_3"][et_pb_image admin_label="Image" src="https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/slnsw.dxd.dc.prod.dos.prod.assets/home-dos-files/2015/06/dictionarylogo1.png" show_in_lightbox="off" url_new_window="off" animation="off" sticky="off" align="left" force_fullwidth="off" always_center_on_mobile="on" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] [/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] If you're looking for more Sydney history, you might like to explore some of these other sites as well [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Blogs

• 52 Suburbs
• Abandoned Australia – Urban Exploration in Australia
• Archival Sauces
• Australasian Zoo & Circus Animals Historical Journal
• Australian Colonial Dance
• Australian Food Timeline
• Australian National Maritime Museum Blog
• Biblioburbia
• Blue Mountains Local Studies Blog
• Camden Library Local Studies blog
• Campbelltown Library’s History Buff
• Canada Bay Connections blog
• Dangar Island Historical Society
• Fairfield City Library Local Studies blog
• Hawkesbury Historical Society
• History @ City of Botany Bay
• John Oxley Library blog
• Launched into Eternity: The History of Executions in Autralia
• Local Notes
• Macdonaldtown Bicycle Club
• Manly Library Local Studies blog
• Marrickville Heritage Society
• Mirror Sydney
• Past Lives of the Near Future
• Pavement Appreciation
• Powerhouse Museum – Inside the Collection blog
• Rare and Curious
• Scratching Sydney's Surface
• Signposts – a blog about Te Ara
• State Library of NSW blogs
• Sydney – City and Suburbs Photo Blog
• Sydney Anthology
• The Dirt on the Rocks – Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
• The Reflective Gardener
• Today in history – State Records NSW

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• A history of Aboriginal Sydney
• A Land Fit for Heroes? A History of Soldier Settlement in New South Wales, 1916-1939
• Aboriginal place names around Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay: Australian Museum
• Archives Outside
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Australian Dress Register
• Beecroft and Cheltenham History Group
• Benevolent Society celebrates 200 Years
• Canterbury Commons (via Wayback Machine)
• City of Sydney Archives and City of Sydney History unit
• Encyclopedia of Melbourne
• Eora People: Saltwater People of the Sydney Area
• Europeana
• Geographical Names Board of NSW
• Historical Atlas of Sydney
• Historypin

[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Reading room at Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, June 1879, Australian Town and Country Journal, 14 June 1879, p 1128 [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]

• Memories of Mosman
• Object: Audio Design Museum
• Organs of Sydney
• Pandora – Australia’s web archives
• Picture Sutherland Shire
• Queensland Historical Atlas
• Sydney Oral Histories
• Sydney Water – Celebrating 125 Years
• Sydney's Aldermen
• The Australian Women's Register
• The Benevolent Society
• Trove
• WraggeLabs Emporium

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• Airview Aerial Photography
• ASHET, the Australian Society for History of Engineering and Technology
• Australian Copyright Council
• Australian National Placenames Survey
• Deaf History Australia
• FBi radio – All the Best
• Find a public library in NSW
• Hindsight – ABC Radio National
• Historic Houses Trust of NSW
• History Council of NSW
• Inside History magazine
• Ku-ring-gai Historical Society
• Lane Cove: on the street where you live
• Lost Sydney
• Mount Victoria and District Historical Society and Museum
• Museum of Fire
• National Museum of Australia
• New South Wales Postcard Collectors Society
• Monument Australia
• Oral History NSW
• Parramatta Heritage Centre
• Randwick Historical Society
• Register of War Memorials in NSW
• Royal Australian Historical Society
• Royal Australian Navy Armament Depots
• Society of Australian Genealogists
• St George Historical Society
• Strathfield Heritage
• Sydney Heritage Fleet
• The Planthunter
• The Territories

[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] King Street in the rain, c1900 by Frederick Danvers Power, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (a422001 / ON 225,14) [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#ffffff" show_divider="off" height="10" divider_style="solid" divider_position="top" divider_weight="1" hide_on_mobile="on"] [/et_pb_divider][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_fullwidth_image admin_label="Fullwidth Image" src="https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/slnsw.dxd.dc.prod.dos.prod.assets/home-dos-files/2015/06/COSA_1888-City-of-Sydney-Birdseye-view_CROP_centre2.jpg" show_in_lightbox="off" url_new_window="off" animation="off" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] [/et_pb_fullwidth_image][et_pb_row admin_label="Row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="right" text_font_size="10" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid" saved_tabs="all" global_module="11276"] Detail from MS Hill's 1888 map 'The City of Sydney',  a birds-eye view over the city looking to the south and west across Darling Harbour. http://dictionaryofsydney.org/image/97526 [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row global_module="9305" admin_label="row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="off" width_unit="on" use_custom_gutter="on" gutter_width="1" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" column_padding_mobile="on"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid" custom_padding="20px|10px|20px|20px" text_text_color="#dd3333"]

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