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

Barrister, judge, politician and social reformer who encouraged education for girls and was founding chairman of Women's College, within the University of Sydney.

Art collector and curator who helped establish the Powerhouse Museum and also established the John Passmore Museum after the she convinced Passmore not to burn his artworks before his death. In 2009, Wrobel threatened a hunger strike in defence of the Lucy Osborn-Nightingale…

Protest movement that emerged in 2013 via social media in response to the removal of a temporary rainbow-painted pedestrian crossing at Taylor Square which had been created by the City of Sydney for the 35th Sydney Mardi Gras celebrations. Activists create rainbows and…

Sydney businessman and importer who arrived in Sydney in 1827 and occupied Bello Retiro at Newtown before moving to Hobart. He owned the Marquis of Lansdowne and used it to trade with India and elsewhere. In 1838 he was involved in the campaign to import Indian…

Harrison Bryan was Librarian of the University of Queensland 1950-1962, and of the University of Sydney 1963-1980. He was Director-General of the National Library of Australia 1980-1985. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia, received the HCL Anderson Award of…

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.

South-eastern residential and industrial suburb. Named in 1961 after then New South Wales local government minister and former Sydney Lord Mayor Patrick Hills.

South-western residential suburb, named after an early homestead in the area belonging to the Payten family. Its streets are named after Sydney beaches.

Journalist and author who wrote a guide to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Town Life in Australia, that was published in London in 1883.

Soldier who arrived with the 17th Regiment and settled in Sydney in 1834, and became a businessman and politician, before returning to England.

Arts and Crafts style suburban villa which reflects the taste and lifestyle of the upper middle class in Sydney prior to World War I.

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.

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.…

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…

Area around Liverpool Street which was a hub for the Spanish community in Sydney after the establishment of the Spanish Club there in 1962.

Hill above the western side of Sydney Cove where St Patrick's Catholic Church, the Scots Kirk and St Philip's Anglican Church are located.

The first dam built in the Upper Nepean Scheme, it provides water to the Macarthur and Illawarra regions, the Wollondilly Shire, and Sydney.