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The Nocturnes
Popular instrumental rock band that formed in Sydney in 1962. In 1964 singer Ray Brown joined the band and they became Ray Brown and the Whispers.
Hook, Charles
Junior partner in Robert Campbell's Sydney business who supported Governor Bligh as an opponent of the trading cabal of military officers who were their trading competition.
Fiaschi, Piero
Medical practitioner and army medical officer who with his father Thomas, is commemorated by a life-sized bronze replica of the famous Florentine Porcellino monument outside Sydney Hospital.
Blackmore, Edward Hugh Enes
Classics and mathematics teacher who ran his own school on Hunter Street. He also taught at Sydney Grammar in the late 1850s and 1860s, as well as working as a private tutor, and teaching for a short time in the 1880s at Sydney Girls High. Born in England, he had migrated to…
Blaxell, Gregory
Gregory Blaxell is a former university lecturer, author of The River: Sydney Cove to Parramatta (Halstead Press 2009), and a member of the Hunters Hill Historical Society
Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Roman Catholic religious institute initially established in France and founded in Sydney when five daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart arrived in 1885.
Pohjanpalo, Jorma
Jorma Pohjanpalo was the Secretary of the Finnish Consulate in Sydney, from 1927 until 1931. His papers are held at the National Library of Australia.
Newling, Jacqui
Jacqui Newling is a historian, curator and gastronomer. She is the author of Eat Your History (SLM and NewSouth Publishing) and works at Sydney Living Museums
Sutherland, John
Builder, land speculator and politician who advocated improved working conditions and encouraged local manufactures by opposing overseas contracts. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1861.
Macdermott, Henry
Soldier and later wine merchant who was Mayor of Sydney in 1845, and an advocate for working men, before bankruptcy forced him out of local politics.
Shapcote, Peter John
Seaman who sailed with the Second Fleet aboard the storeship, Justinian, arriving in Sydney only to find his father had died during the voyage aboard Neptune.
Pell, Morris Birkbeck
Professor of mathematics who was chosen from 26 candidates as first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Sydney, with a salary of £825.
Australian Film Commission
Federal government agency, with offices in Sydney and elsewhere, operating under the Commonwealth Film Program to ensure the creation, preservation and availability of Australian audiovisual content.
Australian War Museum
Forerunner of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, this collection was exhibited in Prince Alfred Park, Sydney, from 1925 until 1936 when it moved to Canberra.
Hely, Frederick Augustus
Public servant who arrived in the colony in 1823 as principal superintendant of convicts and served as a magistrate as well as establishing a farm north of Sydney.
Hoff, Rayner
Sculptor and energetic art teacher and administrator at East Sydney Technical College who created large-scale sculpture for various buildings and public memorials including the Anzac Memorial.
Davis, Alexander Bernard
Rabbi of the York Street synagogue from 1862, who founded many Sydney Jewish organisations and schools, and was instrumental in the building of the Great Synagogue.
Poetry. Original. Lines suggested by the wreck of the 'Edward Lombe' 1835
Attributed to X when first published in the Sydney Times, the poem was published as 'The Wreck of the Edward Lombe' in an anthology of writings by William Woolls, 'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse' in 1838.
The Bulletin
Australia's longest-running magazine, published in Sydney from 1880, became a conduit between rural Australia and the cities, and provided an outlet for the work of many of Sydney's best known writers and artists.