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Inaugural Coral Thomas Fellowship Lecture
On 19 October, Dr Rebe Taylor, the State Library of New South Wales’ current Coral Thomas Fellow, will deliver the inaugural lecture on her recent findings. In the early 1830s, surveyor John Helder Wedge collected early south-eastern Aboriginal wooden artefacts... read more
Sydney’s coffee obsession
Sunday 1 October was International Coffee Day and we certainly love our coffee in Australia. Historian Garry Wotherspoon has written an article in the Dictionary of Sydney about how our city’s obsession with coffee came to be, despite our tea-drinking origins. Listen... read more
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We're absolutely thrilled that Professor Grace Karskens, Professor of History at the UNSW and Dictionary of Sydney board member, author & all-round legend, is the The State Library of New South Wales' 2018 Coral Thomas Fellow!
Her project 'The Real Secret River, Dyarubbin' will use the State Library of NSW’s extensive and rich collections of manuscripts, books, images and maps to tell new cross-cultural and environmental stories about one of Australia’s most beautiful and historically significant rivers: Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River.
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