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Merchant and landowner in nineteenth-century Sydney. His home Crows Nest had a commanding view across Sydney Harbour. He was the nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Sculpture by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley of a forest of 29 poles outside the Museum of Sydney symbolising the interaction between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people. They represent the 29 Aboriginal clans of Sydney and are inscribed with words from Aboriginal languages…

Council established in 1895 to govern a small area on Sydney's north shore.

Rabbit seller famous for his loud comments at Sydney Cricket Ground matches.

City of Sydney alderman, for whom Green Park at Darlinghurst is named.

Politician representing first East Sydney and then Hartley in the Blue Mountains.

Architectural practice in Sydney in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Non-profit community organisation formed to inform and represent residents of Northbridge, Sydney.

Philanthropist, devout Baptist and wife of one of Sydney's most prominent businessmen.

Perhaps the earliest ballad opera written in Sydney, first performed in 1844.

Trade union organiser Ernest O'Dea served as Lord Mayor of Sydney 1949-52

Outbreak of disease that decimated the Aboriginal population of the Sydney area.

Community association which was a precursor to the Australian Lebanese Association in Sydney.

First Supreme Court judge in Sydney, who was dismissed by Governor Macquarie.

Scottish merchants trading from India who opened a branch in Sydney in 1800.

French shipping company which, as Messageries Maritimes, established a Sydney office in 1882.

Surveyor and architect who designed churches and public buildings in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney.

Mauritian trader who undertook the first Mauritian expedition to Sydney in 1802.

The man who wrote Eternity on Sydney's pavements for over thirty years.