by Rachel Franks | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog, Entries
John Rae is, perhaps, my favourite dead white male. On the surface, he’s really rather ordinary. An administrator who was meticulous and ambitious, he was a career public servant. He woke up, got dressed, went to work and came home again. He married and had six...
by Minna Muhlen-Schulte | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog
Last week Australia and New Zealand won their joint bid to host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup on Friday, prompting us to think across codes about some other legendary women football players in Sydney who played their first game almost 100 years ago. As the...
by Lisa Murray | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
You know, we often take Sydney Town Hall for granted. It’s undeniably a city landmark – we sit on its steps and watch the world go by, use it as a meeting place, and it has given its name to a train station – but it is also a very special building....
by Mark Dunn | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog
With Sydney surrounded by mountains on three out of four sides, getting out of the city area has, until fairly recently, been tricky. This was particularly the case in the colonial period. In the west the Blue Mountains were viewed as an almost impenetrable barrier by...
by Rachel Franks | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog
In the mid-eighteenth century, the famous London magazine Punch published a short piece on the ever-increasing popularity of true crime stories: We are a trading community—a commercial people. Murder is, doubtless, a very shocking offence; nevertheless, as what is...
