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One of the most authoritative theatre critics Australia has ever produced. He was a foreign correspondent and war correspondent and theatre and music critic at the Sydney Morning Herald for over 40 years.

Clergyman from Gloucester, England who commenced his career in the Anglican Church in his home country before going to Ghent, Belgium. After arriving in Sydney he established a school for boys in Glebe.

Irish-born judge who migrated to New South Wales for health and financial reasons, and became one of the first three judges and chairmen of the Sydney Court of General and Quarter Sessions.

Dental surgeon who was in the first intake at the University of Sydney dentistry school in 1901. Her career was spent encouraging women students and advancing dentistry through a series of professional associations.

Gothic Revival hall on the second floor of the University of Sydney quadrangle. Before the construction of the present Fisher Library building in 1962, it was the original Fisher Library reading room.

Victor Johnston was a writer and press photographer in Sydney from the 1930s through till the 1960s. He worked for the Sun, for People and for PIX. Often mistakenly credited as Vic Johnson.

Musician who was a founding member of pioneering Brisbane punk band The Saints in 1976, and a feature of Sydney's live music scene as a solo artist and with bands Laughing Clowns and the Aints.

Sydney photographer, a member of the so-called 'Merioola Group' of artists who, from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, lived and worked in Merioola, a boarding house in Woollahra converted from a Victorian-era mansion.

Soldier and administrator in the New South Wales Corps who was in command of Norfolk Island from 1800-1804, and later took command in Sydney after the Rum Rebellion deposed Governor William Bligh.

Poet and journalist whose work appeared in the Bulletin and Sydney Punch, and founder of the Dawn and Dusk club of writers and artists. He often wrote under the pseudonym Creeve Roe.

Second oldest Meeting House in use by Quakers in Australia. The previous Meeting House in Sydney had been built in the Friends Burial Ground in the Devonshire Street Cemetery in 1868.

Aeronaut and funambulist, L'Estrange was one of the daring performers attempting unheard-of feats in Sydney during the 1870s and 1880s. Though not always successful, his exploits were usually both exciting and spectacular.

From convict beginnings, the General Post Office was to re-emerge in the 1860s in Italian Renaissance grandeur when James Barnet created an enduring centrepiece for Sydney.

Freed from incarceration in New Caledonia for his revolutionary activities in the Paris Commune, Lucian Henry built a new life in Sydney as an artist, teacher and advocate for native Australian motifs in the decorative arts.

This interwar Gothic building, opened in 1935, became the home of Sydney's oldest Presbyterian congregation, after the extension of Martin Place to Macquarie Street led to the demolition of the previous St Stephen's in Phillip Street.

Possibly designed by Francis Greenway, Cadman's cottage housed John Cadman, government coxswain, from 1827 until 1845. It was subsequently used by the Water Police and the Sydney Sailors' Home, and is now a museum.

Life After Wartime brings previously 'lost' images from the Justice and Police Museum, Sydney, into the public domain. Using uncatalogued crime scene photographs taken from 1945 to 1960, Life After Wartime captures a startling record of life, death and folly, reflecting a…

Fruit and vegetable business that operated through the markets in Sydney. Bananas were a large part of their business and they had investments in Coffs Harbour, Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific Islands.

Teacher and lecturer who became the first professor of Economics at the University of Sydney in 1912. He also gave the first lecture in the Australian branch of the WEA in 1913.

Sydney's Egyptians came in two waves, with Jews, Coptic Christians, Greek and Armenian Egyptians making up the bulk of the arrivals before 1976, and some Egyptian Muslims arriving in recent years. The Coptic Church is vital to the community, with 10 churches and a…