If you’re looking for more Sydney history, you might like to explore some of these other sites as well
Blogs
- 52 Suburbs
- Abandoned Australia – Urban Exploration in Australia
- Archival Sauces
- Australasian Zoo & Circus Animals Historical Journal
- Australian Colonial Dance
- Australian Food Timeline
- Australian National Maritime Museum Blog
- Biblioburbia
- Blue Mountains Local Studies Blog
- Camden Library Local Studies blog
- Campbelltown Library’s History Buff
- Canada Bay Connections blog
- Dangar Island Historical Society
- Fairfield City Library Local Studies blog
- Hawkesbury Historical Society
- History @ City of Botany Bay
- John Oxley Library blog
- Launched into Eternity: The History of Executions in Autralia
- Local Notes
- Macdonaldtown Bicycle Club
- Manly Library Local Studies blog
- Marrickville Heritage Society
- Mirror Sydney
- Past Lives of the Near Future
- Pavement Appreciation
- Powerhouse Museum – Inside the Collection blog
- Rare and Curious
- Scratching Sydney’s Surface
- Signposts – a blog about Te Ara
- State Library of NSW blogs
- Sydney – City and Suburbs Photo Blog
- Sydney Anthology
- The Dirt on the Rocks – Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
- The Reflective Gardener
- Today in history – State Records NSW
Research
- A history of Aboriginal Sydney
- A Land Fit for Heroes? A History of Soldier Settlement in New South Wales, 1916-1939
- Aboriginal place names around Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay: Australian Museum
- Archives Outside
- Australian Dictionary of Biography
- Australian Dress Register
- Beecroft and Cheltenham History Group
- Benevolent Society celebrates 200 Years
- Canterbury Commons (via Wayback Machine)
- City of Sydney Archives and City of Sydney History unit
- Encyclopedia of Melbourne
- Eora People: Saltwater People of the Sydney Area
- Europeana
- Geographical Names Board of NSW
- Historical Atlas of Sydney
- Historypin
- Memories of Mosman
- Object: Audio Design Museum
- Organs of Sydney
- Pandora – Australia’s web archives
- Picture Sutherland Shire
- Queensland Historical Atlas
- Sydney Oral Histories
- Sydney Water – Celebrating 125 Years
- Sydney’s Aldermen
- The Australian Women’s Register
- The Benevolent Society
- Trove
- WraggeLabs Emporium
Other
- Airview Aerial Photography
- ASHET, the Australian Society for History of Engineering and Technology
- Australian Copyright Council
- Australian National Placenames Survey
- Deaf History Australia
- FBi radio – All the Best
- Find a public library in NSW
- Hindsight – ABC Radio National
- Historic Houses Trust of NSW
- History Council of NSW
- Inside History magazine
- Ku-ring-gai Historical Society
- Lane Cove: on the street where you live
- Lost Sydney
- Mount Victoria and District Historical Society and Museum
- Museum of Fire
- National Museum of Australia
- New South Wales Postcard Collectors Society
- Monument Australia
- Oral History NSW
- Parramatta Heritage Centre
- Randwick Historical Society
- Register of War Memorials in NSW
- Royal Australian Historical Society
- Royal Australian Navy Armament Depots
- Society of Australian Genealogists
- St George Historical Society
- Strathfield Heritage
- Sydney Heritage Fleet
- The Planthunter
- The Territories
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