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British soldier who arrived in Sydney in 1835 with his Greek-born wife and family, and served nearly 30 years as a soldier and later police magistrate in the colony.

Physicist and chemical engineer whose determination to establish a programme of research was to make the University of Sydney a major centre for research into explosives and electrical power technology.

Transport commissioner, engineer and commissioner of railways who was largely responsible for beginning the electrification of Sydney's suburban network and for the first stages of the city railway.

Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales : with personal reminiscences of the tribes formerly living in the neighbourhood of Sydney and the surrounding districts by George Thornton and Richard Hill was published in 1892 for the New South Wales Commissioners for the…

Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. Her 2010 nonfiction work, Sydney, a personal history of her home town, won the CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature and was shortlisted for other major national prizes…

52 Suburbs is the name of a project created by writer and photographer Louise Hawson. Realising she was a stranger in her own city, Sydney, from September 2009 to October 2010 Louise set herself the task of exploring one new Sydney suburb a week for…

Peter Adams is a Sydney-based musician and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Communication (Film and Sound) and a Graduate Diploma in Design from the University of Technology Sydney. For the past twenty-five years he has worked in film production, digital…

Though Frederick Ellard spent much of the 1840s in Melbourne and London, Sydney remained the base of his activities. His first published composition was The Sydney Corporation Quadrilles (1842) which, like most of his other works of the 1840s, was published by the Ellard…

From abattoir to shipping terminal, Glebe Island has been an intrinsic part of the development of industrial Sydney.

Founded by Dr Sydney Evan Jones after World War I, the Broughton Hall psychiatric clinic was one of the first in Sydney to offer treatment to patients of modest means who were not certifiably insane. The grounds and gardens were part of the therapy to divert patients from…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Water Police Court between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project..

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Holy Trinity School between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the State Bank building between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Walsh Bay Wharves between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Devonshire Street Cemetery between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Semi Circular Quay between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Hyde Park Barracks between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Lieutenant Governor's House between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the York Street Synagogue between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Iza Coghlan was one of the first two women in New South Wales to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1893. The second Australian woman doctor to register with the New South Wales Medical Board, she pioneered private medical practice in Sydney and was the first…