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Letters of Complaint
2SER Breakfast listeners had a special treat today as Lisa talked about Letters of Complaint, just one of the projects she’s been working on in her role as the City Historian at the City of Sydney. Listen now The City of Sydney Archives holds an extensive... read more
On the buses
There’s been a lot of talk this week about Sydney’s buses and the NSW Government’s plans to privatise a section of the network. As historian Garry Wotherspoon points out in his article in the Dictionary of Sydney, Sydney’s bus network has always been a source of... read more
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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 Referendum Australia Had to Have
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people shoul...
The Dictionary of Sydney shared Alison Wishart's post.
New oral histories (relating to the 1967referendum...
26 May is National Sorry Day, and has been held each year since 1998 to acknowledge and recognise members of the Stolen Generations.
Read about how the The State Library of New South Wales with members of the Stolen Generations with advice and assistance on access to historic collections and part of their Indigenous Collecting Strategy, is actively commissioning projects that enable collection of Indigenous stories and voice.
National Sorry Day 2017 | State Library of NSW
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As part of our Indigenous Collecting Strategy, the...
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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