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Independent Anglican school founded by Reverend Henry Plume at Kurrajong Heights. It was named for The Right Reverend Frederic Barker, the second Bishop of Sydney.

First naturalist to study eucalypts, he made an early attempt to cross the Blue Mountains and explored much of the Sydney region with Aboriginal help.

Local government body which administered the municipality of Newtown, from its formation in 1862 until it was amalgamated into the City of Sydney in 1948.

Physician and teacher who improved medical training and influenced public works during the plague scare of 1900. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1901.

Artist who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape painting and for 40 years taught art in the Faculty of Architecture at Sydney University.

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry…

Rose Bay Airport, on Sydney Harbour, was Sydney's first international airport for sea boats. Opening in 1937, Rose Bay Airport catered to the Empire Flying Boat and Air Mail Service, World War Two Catalina flying boats and Qantas and Ansett services until 1974 when services…

Walter F Lalich is an associate member and researcher in the Croatian Studies Centre, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney

Hailed as the 'Australian Paganini', William Wallace was a musical star in Sydney on his arrival in 1836, but left only two years later, in debt, for adventures elsewhere.

Map publishing company which was to merge with Gregory's Guides in the 1930s. In th 1900s the business was operating from 41 Phillip Street Sydney.

Also called 'Old Boys', the group was formed by former students of Sydney Grammar School to maintain the networks they formed during their school years.

Convict who became an expert horseman and jockey and received a pardon in 1814. His son Thomas endowed the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney.

Leading Sydney department store that closed in the 1960s. The store's landmark Piazza building on Liverpool Street later became the Downing Centre court complex.

Company director and successful merchant who brought his entrepreneurial and managerial skills to civic administration. He served as Lord Mayor of Sydney 1905-06 and 1909-12.

Auctioneer and politician who arrived in Sydney with little money before working at an auction house and then starting his own business. He became a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was an alderman and mayor at Randwick Council. He became the subject of…

Timber barque that was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on 15 August 1834, en route from Sydney to Singapore.  Most of the survivors of the wreck were attacked and killed by Torres Strait Islanders. Four children survived, and two of these, a former cabin boy, John Ireland,…

English-born scene painter Alfred Clint both came from and sired an artistic family. His elaborate painted backdrops were a highlight of late nineteenth-century Sydney theatre.

All the Best shares stories about the most revered, the most feared and the most famous of characters from Australia's first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. Come inside a real-life windmill constructed in The Rocks Square, and join a packed audience hearing live stories,…

While children have always comprised a substantial proportion of the overall population of Sydney, their voices are absent or muffled in many historical records. State intervention in the lives of European and Indigenous children has been constant in Sydney since the colonial…

Long a landmark in Sydney's west, Club Marconi has served the social, cultural and sporting needs of Sydney's Italians for over 50 years.