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First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Australia from 1959 who was discovered by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to be engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union in 1963. Secret messages had been shared between him and another operative, who was a double…

Two church buildings have served this parish, one of Sydney's earliest and most diverse. Services in Spanish and Portuguese were conducted from the nineteenth century, serving the local immigrant community. In 2004 the site became part of Notre Dame University Sydney.…

Suzanne D Rutland OAM is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney

One of Sydney's oldest hotels, built from local sandstone, which has provided refreshment to the changing population of Millers Point since 1845.

Scottish-born public servant, writer and painter who was the first full-time town clerk of the City of Sydney, and later a railway commissioner.

Farmer, businessman, racing enthusiast, Joseph Fowles was also a successful artist, who left a visual record of Sydney in 1848 that remains invaluable to historians.

Snapper Island is the smallest island in Sydney Harbour. It is also the island that has been the most changed and reshaped by human manipulation.

An eminent lawyer who was Crown Solicitor of New South Wales for over two decades, John Williams was also a mayor of Sydney.

An associate of kings and poets in England, Isaac Nathan emigrated for financial reasons and became a founder of Sydney's musical culture.

A former drunk who was converted to Christianity, Arthur Stace spent the rest of his life spreading the Gospel, and unobtrusively writing Eternity in chalk on pavements all over Sydney. The identity of the Eternity Man was a mystery for over twenty years. Eternity has since…

Scottish-born public servant, writer, photographer and painter who was the first full-time town clerk of the City of Sydney, and later a railway commissioner.

American circus company formed by brothers Ephraim, Ad, Lewis and Peter Sells which operated from 1871 to 1895, touring to Sydney in 1891-92.

Studio established for scene painting for Sydney theatres though it could not survive the coming of movies and the depression of the 1920s.

English attorney who was connected to the family of Philip Gidley King by marriage and built and owned Werrington House in Western Sydney.

ARN is the largest owner of commercial radio stations in Australasia and includes the Sydney stations Mix 106.5, WSFM 101.7 and Edge 96.1

Fictional work set in Sydney by Gail Jones that was published in 2011. It takes its title from Slessor's 1939 poem Five Bells.

Actor and writer who was a founder of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and became known as the Queen of Sydney's Kings Cross Bohemia.

Lawyer who became a patron of writing and education in the colony, and whose library became the foundation of the University of Sydney library.

Polish-born engineer who became Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, overseeing a revitalisation of the city centre and the creation of public spaces.

British civil engineer who migrated to Sydney and established an architecture practice, best known for a group of grand residences he designed in Glebe.