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Publican, businessman and politician who was mayor of Sydney in 1862.

Medical doctor, philanthropist and politician who arrived in Sydney as a convict.

Trapeze and acrobatic troupe which performed in Sydney in October 1873.

A musical about gay life in Sydney in the 1940s and 1950s.

Artist and City of Sydney Town Clerk between 1857 and 1887.

Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures for Metropolitan Sydney from 1883-1909. 

William Fitzgerald, a grocer, served as Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1920.

Lawyer and partner in Allens, one of Sydney's oldest law firms.

Lawyer and partner in Allens, one of Sydney's oldest law firms.

Musician and music teacher in early nineteenth century Sydney and Hobart.

Photographer whose work recorded many aspects of Sydney over many decades.

Landscape painter and illustrator who contributed to Sydney Mail and Bulletin.

Second Anglican bishop of Sydney and a founder of Moore Theological College.

Colonial Architect and designer of Sydney University and many public buildings.

Administrative office to log ships and seamen arriving in Sydney Harbour.

Social club for Sydney's gay community in the 1960s and 70s.

Sydney businessman, founder of FJ Walker Ltd, meat importers and exporters.

Composer and violinist whose stay in Sydney was short but eventful.

From the Kinetoscope Parlour set up in Sydney in 1894 and visited by 22,000 people in five weeks, to the latest Hollywood blockbuster filmed in Sydney's streets, film has been part of Sydney's story. Filmmakers have presented many different images of the city and its diverse…

Trans-Tasman relationships predate European settlement in New Zealand, and frequent exchanges between Sydney and New Zealand have persisted over two centuries. New Zealand-born Sydneysiders have figured in every area of Sydney's history, and since the 1960s mass migration…