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Irish Jesuit priest who established a Jesuit presence in Melbourne before moving to Sydney to found St Ignatius College.

Book based on the author's early years growing up in Sydney and her later experiences living in London.

Magazine published by Sydney Ure Smith to enable artists to blur the lines between commercial art and art.

Architectural firm and design company responsible for several significant public buildings in Sydney in the 21st century.

Solicitor and businessman in early colonial Sydney. In 1817, Amos went into partnership with former convict George Crossley.  

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

Merchant who speculated in property across New South Wales and Queensland and became a very successful businessman in Sydney.

Bogus clergyman, schoolmaster and journalist who, when granted his ticket-of-leave in 1819, established a series of schools in Sydney.

Businessman and sportsman who was Mayor of Sydney in 1859 and later a prominent citizen of the Manly district.

Irish-born, Charles Moore arrived in Sydney as a draper, and rose to public office as Mayor and a member of parliament.

Ross Gibson is Professor of Contemporary Arts at the University of Sydney. His research includes writing, film and art installations. His most recent book, 26 Views of the Starburst World, about William Dawes, was published in 2012. His serialised photographic poem,…

Eastern suburb located on South Head named after Vaucluse House. It is one of Sydney's most expensive suburbs.

Geologist and professor at the University of Sydney who accompanied Shackleton and Mawson to the south magnetic pole.

Body of water stretching south from Broken Bay parallel to the coast, west of Sydney's northern beach suburbs.

Glebe based club which played at Wentworth Oval until forced out of the Sydney premiership league in 1929.

Adult educator, political philosopher and historian who worked at the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide.

Private hospital which provides acute medical and surgical services and is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.

Member of the Chinese Youth League in Sydney from the 1940s and organiser for the Chinese Seamen's Union.

Sugar cane grower from Mauritius who visited Sydney in 1865 on his way to the Queensland sugar fields.

Born Mary Ann Cheers, daughter of two convicts, and widowed young, she remarried and became the wife of the Mayor of Sydney and a popular and sociable Sydney lady, before drowning in the Dunbar shipwreck, with her two children.