by Dictionary of Sydney | Jul 31, 2019 | Blog
As part of the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, there’s a fascinating exhibition on right now at the State Library of New South Wales that looks at the Aboriginal languages of New South Wales. There are about 35 different languages around New...
by Lisa Murray | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog
It’s a VERY exciting week to be an historian in Sydney this week with the opening of the new galleries and a learning centre in the historic Mitchell Library wing of the State Library of New South Wales, so today I thought we’d take a look back at the...
by Linda Brainwood | Jul 12, 2017 | Blog
Moving the Dictionary Over the last year we’ve been working on moving the Dictionary’s content on to a new platform hosted by the State Library of New South Wales. Over the next few days you may notice some changes to the site as we flip the switch and...
by Jacqueline Spedding | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Since it first started in 2009, over 1.5 million words have been published on the Dictionary of Sydney including 940 entries, 4,217 multimedia items, 12,735 entities and 38,639 factoids. With a free mobile app, resources for schools linked to the national history...
by Dictionary of Sydney | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog
We have a lot information in the Dictionary and each month we track our most popular entries and pages to see what people are looking for. This morning I thought I’d share with you the top 10 pages for June. Interestingly, our number one page in June was not an...
