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Botanist, curator, writer and teacher, Joseph Maiden brought knowledge about Australia's plants into the public realm through his influence on the collections and programs of the Technological Museum and the Botanic Gardens and his emphasis on the creation of useful and…

Elsie, or ELC, Watson as she appeared to prefer, was born in Elgin, Scotland in about 1870. She studied at St Andrew's University and received an L La, before coming to Australia where members of her extended family lived. She worked in Sydney at the Presbyterian Ladies…

Tabletop mountain in the Yengo National Park north west of Sydney, between the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) and the lower Hunter Valley, that forms part of the of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. The mountain is a remnant of an ancient volcano and is a sacred…

Standing high on Windmill Hill above The Rocks, Fort Phillip was built to defend the colony from threats coming from the ocean to the east, and the hinterland to the west. Though the guns remained there until the 1820s, the fort was never finished, and was more useful as a…

The name Lilyfield was chosen by local residents, possibly to try and obscure the memory of Lilyfield's stinking tanneries and boiling down works, along Whites Creek, which were later moved to Botany. With the smell gone, suburban development spread.

Rosine Guiterman was a Jewish activist, teacher, poet and humanitarian, with apparently inexhaustible reserves of energy, whose commitment to social justice informed her professional and personal life

William Dixson's dream was to make Australia's history better known. His passion for collecting and his enormous generosity made this dream a reality and a lasting legacy for the cultural and historical records of Australia

Reverend Graham Long, Pastor and CEO of the Wayside Chapel, talks about the origins of the chapel, the Life Education program and their visionary founder Ted Noffs.