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Bunting, pickets and harpoons – electioneering Sydney style
As electioneering reaches a fever pitch ahead of Saturday’s polling day, I thought it might be instructive to look back on how electioneering was done back at the first state elections. Listen to the whole conversation with Lisa and Tess on 2SER here The... read more
Temperance and the ‘evils of tight lacing’: Susan Beckett
With International Women’s Day and the All About Women festival in the past week, there have been some great discussions around feminism and gender equality. Sydney has had its share of women’s rights activists, some better remembered than others. One of the... read moreCURRICULUM RESOURCES
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PIC: Man reading newspaper on deck of ferry approaching Circular Quay, 1906. By Harold Cazneaux. Contributed by National Library of Australia (nla.pic-an23242011).
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The making of an Australian suburb
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Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and...Free! There are still tickets available to join Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance next Wednesday 27 March at the The State Library of New South Wales for the first #TalkingDeadly of the year as he looks at blogging as a form of resistance and as a method to examine and discuss the role of memory institutions in the destruction, exclusion and misremembering of First Nations culture and history.
Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance is a Wiradjuri man from the Mowgee clan, who grew up on Darkinjung Country, NSW. Nathan works to ensure that First Nations stories conveyed by cultural and memory institutions, such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums, are being told and controlled by First Nations people.
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Talking Deadly: Who drives the conversation?
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- An event at the State Library of New South WalesJoin Kurrajong-Comleroy Historical Society as they explore the remnants of the Richmond to Kurrajong Railway that operated from 1926–52.
To book, visit: kurrajonghistory.org.au/booking.php?event=PANSY280419
Detail from MS Hill's 1888 map 'The City of Sydney', a birds-eye view over the city looking to the south and west across Darling Harbour. http://dictionaryofsydney.org/image/97526
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