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University of Sydney monetary prize for students that was established in 1917 with funds presented to the university by the mother of Dagmar Berne, the first woman to study medicine there. For many years it was awarded to the woman who gained the highest marks in her final…

Jean Arnot was a librarian and activist for women's rights. She spent her career at the Public Library of New South Wales (1921-1968) and held various offices in the Australian Institute of Librarians (later the Library Association of Australia), the National Council of Women…

Sixteen year old domestic servant who had recently arrived in Sydney from regional New South Wales, and was the victim of a gang rape at Mount Rennie (now Moore Park) in September 1886. The trial of eleven of her assailants polarised the colony, especially when four of the…

Catherine Wardrop has been a scientific botanical illustrator at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney since 1998. An early obsession with drawing initially led Catherine to obtain a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree in Printmaking, which was then complemented by a Postgraduate…

Burial ground established in 1820 on the outskirts of colonial Sydney to replace the earlier burial ground on George Street. It was the city's main burial ground until the opening of Rookwood Cemetery. It officially closed in 1867, although people who had family vaults or…

Lesley Elkan holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Biology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art (Plant and Wildlife Illustration). She has been a botanical illustrator for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney since 1995, where she produces black and white scientific drawings…

Clem Gorman attended the Universities of Western Australia and Sydney. After pioneering experimental theatre in Australia he moved to London in 1970 and, while working as a theatre administrator, began writing non-fiction books, then plays. Following the staging of his second…

Meredith Lake is a professional historian, broadcaster and writer with a particular interest in religion. Her book The Bible in Australia won the Australian History prize at the …

Small sandstone island in Sydney Harbour near Vaucluse with rock formations that were thought to look like a bottle and glass by early colonists. By the 1850s the formation was already described as having weathered to the point where the resemblance to the bottle and glass…

Hawkesbury Regional Museum opened in 2008 and is located in one of Australia's oldest settlements - the third on mainland Australia after Sydney and Parramatta. The Museum is made up of a purpose-built building and historic Howe House. The Georgian house has been fitted out…

Early police force established by Governor Phillip in 1789 to patrol the town of Sydney during the night in order to prevent and detect 'the commission of nightly depredations'. It consisted of twelve of the 'best behaved' former convicts, with the town divided into four…

Magistrate and coroner. Appointed to the position of acting Sydney City Coroner in 1916, he was appointed officially in 1919. He had previously been a district coroner in Moree. Jamieson also held the roles of Fair Rent Magistrate, and the visiting magistrate to the Long Bay…

Colonist who arrived in Sydney as an ensign in the New South Wales Corps in July 1807 with his wife and their large family. He was implicated in the arrest of Bligh and appointed as a magistrate by Governor George Johnston in January of 1808 and in 1820 was…

The Great Strike of 1917 is regarded as one of Australia’s largest industrial conflicts. The strike erupted on the NSW railways and tramways in August 1917 in response to the introduction of a new way of monitoring worker productivity. Thousands of working…

Mrs Amy Everett, interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project, remembers her mother's reaction to moving to Chipping Norton from Artarmon in Sydney's northern suburbs, during the…

The former NSW State Coroner’s Court and Morgue building on Parramatta Road, Glebe, functioned as the centre of coronial justice in the state for 48 years, and tens of thousands of Sydney’s unexplained deaths, accidents, fires, explosions and missing persons were investigated…

Lockleys Pylon, located in Darug country north of Leura, is a rock formation on top of Du Faur Buttress, 600 metres above the floor of the Grose Valley. The 360-degree view from the pylon take in the Illawarra and Sydney, mounts Hay, Banks and Tomah, the Darling Causeway, Hat…

The sandstone and cedar two storey house was built by Simeon Pearce on 1.6 hectares of land overlooking what is today Randwick Racecourse. The first Anglican church service was held at Blenheim House during Pearce's residency and it was also allegedly the site for the…