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Tour of Australia between March 21 and September 6 1948 undertaken by the Old Vic Theatre of London, led by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. They performed at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, from June 29 to August 21.

Julie Ewington is a Sydneysider who worked at MCA in Sydney from 1994–96 and at the Queenslanders Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane for 17 years. A writer, curator and broadcaster, she works with contemporary art and ideas.

The colony's first windmill, built on Observatory Hill between May 1796 and February 1797 from parts brought to Sydney by Governor Hunter in 1795. It quickly fell into disrepair and by 1810 only the stone tower remained.

Amateur photographer and scientist who took some of the earliest known photographs of Sydney. An assayer, or chemist, who worked at the Mint on Macquarie Street, many of his photographs are taken from and of the building.

Commemorative plaque that was installed between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project at 814 George Street, near the intersection with Pitt Street, on the site of the Marcus Clark building.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the Law Courts Building, commemorating the former site of a house owned for a brief period by D'Arcy Wentworth between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

A small, close-knit community, Sydney's Lao started to arrive after the Communist takeover of Laos in 1975, and have since that time rebuilt their lives and organisations in a new city.

Western suburb on the country of the Darug people, which as 'Blacks' Town' became the site of the short-lived Native Institution in 1823. It was a separate town until suburban development joined it to Sydney in the mid-twentieth century.

Inner-east residential suburb, named for the London borough, with 3,800 terrace houses built between 1860 and 1890. It was one of the earliest Sydney suburbs to be valued for its heritage buildings, many of which have been restored.

Art deco hotel on the corner of Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, built in 1936. It occupies the site of the Criterion Theatre and earlier Criterior Hotel which were demolished in 1935 for the widening of Park Street.

Trade union for merchant seamen formed in Sydney and Melbourne in 1874 which took the name Seamen's Union of Australia in 1906. In 1993 it amalgamated with the Waterside Workers' Federation to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

Christian women's support association established in Sydney by Mary Jane Barker.It provided migrant accommodation, an employment agency, an early savings bank for women and the first women's gymnasium in 1912, and continues at the forefront of women's advocacy…

Canterbury residents' delight at the new bridge constructed across the Cooks River to shorten their journey to markets in Sydney quickly turned to anger and complaint as Cornelius Prout set about imposing a toll

One of Sydney's oldest law firms, Allens has been part of the legal, commercial and architectural history of the city.

The National Art School has been at the centre of Sydney's art scene for almost a century, and has nurtured the talents of generations of artists who have studied and worked in studios within the walls of the old Darlinghurst Gaol.

The long and varied cultural history of the Paris Theatre, home to movies, vaudeville, cabaret, 'revues' and drama, gives an insight into the ups and downs of theatre and cinema life in Sydney over the twentieth century.

Royal Commission, better known as the Chelmsford Royal Commission, that investigated the use of deep-sleep therapy, a controversial treatment for psychiatric illnesses, between 1963 and 1979 at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in north west Sydney. The Commission was…

Unofficial name for a large region in southern Sydney, including parts of Hurstville, Rockdale and Kogarah, roughly corresponding to the original parish of St George, part of the subdivision of the County of Cumberland in 1835, for land title purposes.

Seaman who sailed to New South Wales with the First Fleet. He developed a relationship with convict Catherine Hart and would swim ashore to see her each night. He contracted dysentery and died within two months of arriving in Sydney.

Founded as a complement to the National Institute of Dramatic Art, the Old Tote Theatre company ushered in the era of modern, state-supported theatre in Sydney.