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Legislation which provided for the construction of a high level cantilevered or arch bridge across the Harbour including the approaches and electric railway lines. Tenders were called and an arched design was chosen.

In the newly settled colony, cemeteries were an important cultural institution in which the social order could be established and a person's identity within the community could be defined. Through the trappings of the funeral, statements of status, class and religion were…

Poem written by CJ Dennis in 1932 which took the form of a conversation between Arthur Phillip and Dennis's earlier character, the Sentimental Bloke. It was commissioned and published by Berger's Paints to promote the use of 60,000 gallons of Berger's Paints on…

Coal mining company which became enmeshed in the battle to mine Cremorne Point. Based in London it was to form other mining syndicates to pursue other ventures around the harbour in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

While improved sanitation, hygiene, immunisation, antibiotics and better medical care have contributed to a decline in all deaths in the twentieth century, new diseases have challenged modern concepts of life expectancy and the right to die. Cremation offered a new method of…

Margaret Flockton made an enormous contribution to early Australian botanical illustration and taxonomy in her role as the first botanical illustrator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Flockton is finally being given the lasting credit due to her, joining the ranks of…

Aboriginal people who moved to Sydney over the second half of the twentieth century, particularly those who moved into public housing in western Sydney, had to develop strategies to maintain communal bonds and cultural identities in response to pressures to assimilate. Urban…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Sydney Exchange between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project. The text on the plaque read 'The Sydney Exchange Company opened a building on this site as a centre for merchants and for…

The many wartime tensions between members of the New South Wales Peace Society was, in microcosm, one small example of the way in which the World War I split and deeply divided Sydney. Between 1914 and 1918, political, pacifist and patriotic tensions between the Society's…

Percy Grainger was an 'all-round man' whose musical passions ranged from English folk songs through an eclectic array of composers, styles, influences and orchestrations. He graced the stage of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as part of a two-year tour of…