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One of the largest and most visible migrant communities in Sydney, the Vietnamese were the first large group of Asian immigrants to settle in Sydney after the White Australia policy. Despite initial racism from Anglo-Australians, and the difficulties of a transplanted and…

Convicted thief and forger who was involved in the mutiny on the Mercury in 1784 and arrived in Sydney in the First Fleet. The Charlotte medal, Australian earliest colonial art, is believed to have been engraved by him while on board the Charlotte. He was the first man hanged…

Catie Gilchrist has an MA in History, The University of Glasgow, an MA in Women's History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, The University of London and a PhD in convict history, Sydney University where she is an Honorary Associate.  She is the author of 'Murder,…

The Transport Heritage Grants Program is a NSW Government funded program, administered by the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS), with the support of Transport Heritage NSW (THNSW). In 2016 the Dictionary of Sydney in partnership with  the Australian Railway…

Over 100 plaques were set into the pavement of Darlinghurst Road as part of the City of Sydney’s upgrade of the streetscape in 2004-5. The text for the plaques was written by the City Historian, Shirley Fitzgerald. Dot Dash Pty Ltd designed the plaques. and Allan Saxby and…

Gabrielle Gwyther is postdoctoral research fellow in the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney

Small weatherboard Federation cottage in southern Sydney, notable for being the home of writer Miles Franklin and her parents until 1954.

Governor who worked closely with the early responsible governments in New South Wales and was very active in philanthropic work in Sydney.

Con man and bushranger who was tried and hanged in Sydney in 1880. His alias as a bushranger was Captain Moonlite, or Moonlight.

Author, poet and natural history artist who recorded her observations of colonial life and bush flora and fauna from Sydney to Tasmania.

Aboriginal camp site excavated by archaeologists in the 1930s which provided some of the early foundations for archaeological understandings of Sydney's prehistory.

Pastoralist and politician who held grazing runs at Goulburn and Monaro and lived in Sydney only to attend to his political obligations.

A school of arts building constructed in 1860. It was demolished in 1885 for the building of the North Sydney Court House.

Lower Blue Mountains residential town overlooking Nepean River with views of the Sydney area. Bernard Francis Cummins established a lookout there in 1931.

Northern beachside suburb between the ocean and the Narrabeen Lakes. It is the site of the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation.

Physician and author who believed in homeopathic medicine and established Sydney's first Turkish bath. He also lectured on cremation and rational clothing.

First hotel in Gladesville, licenced in 1856. Situated near the flagstaff erected on a high point to relay messages between Sydney and Parramatta.

Picture palace opened in 1919 in a hall on the Pacific Highway which remains one of the few suburban independent cinemas in Sydney.

An independent community-based organisation that has advocated the conservation of built, cultural and natural heritage since its foundation in Sydney in 1945.

Major department store of the first half of the twentieth century with branches in several Sydney suburbs and regional New South Wales.