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Redfern Park has always been a significant social, cultural, political and historical site for Aboriginal people both as a sporting venue and place of reflection for the community.

Part of the traditional lands of the Eora people, Annandale was farmed for much of the nineteenth century, before being subdivided into a Victorian townscape. The suburb catered for the well-to-do and the working classes, and from mid-twentieth century has also housed new…

Founder of a large and successful colonial family, Olivia Gascoigne teamed up with Nathaniel Lucas, convict and carpenter, soon after her arrival in the colony, and together they did well, despite hardships and tragedy.

Once considered 'the greatest boon ever conferred upon the town', the Cooks River dam became an endless source of environmental blight and misery to Sydneysiders and by the turn of the century was demolished

Lucy Leane was an Aboriginal farmer and landowner on Williams Creek near the Georges River in the second half of the nineteenth century. She and her husband William reared 13 children and developed a flourishing farm with an orchard and vineyard, milking cows and horses.

Lindesay, built between 1834 and 1836 for Colonial Treasure Campbell Drummond Riddell, is the oldest surviving residence in Darling Point. It was the home of Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell in 1841 while he built Carthona. The houses have since passed through the hands of a…

Surgeon John White, an officer of the First Fleet, was responsible for the health of the infant penal colony. His journal, and those of his contemporaries, reveals that food shortages were a serious problem for colonial officials, convicts and Aboriginal people. While there…

Thrust into history by his abduction, Bennelong led a tumultuous life, becoming the best known Aboriginal figure in the first decades of European settlement. His story, plagued by myths, connects twenty-first century Australia with the social and spiritual Aboriginal world…

Built in Hyde Park in the 1930s, the Anzac War Memorial commemorates the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in World War I. Though funds were gathered from 1916, construction was delayed by the building of the underground city railway through the park.

Mr George Bates was born in 1912 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' oral history project. He remembers finding work at Ashcroft's Butcher's in Liverpool during the Great…