Thru my Sydney Eye

With three of their four offspring interred here in the Old Anglican section of Rookwood Necropolis, I wondered where Frederick and Margar...

Up on the third floor of The Barracks is the hammock room. This is a brilliant idea by the historians to bring history to life. Classes of s...

There was little reference to loaves and fishes in the struggling young colony; indeed, the first decade was one of unremitting famine and p...

The Colony of New South Wales was established in 1788, peopled by convicts, soldiers and a few free settlers. In 1819 Hyde Park barracks was...

According to the Sydney Gazette & NSW Advertiser, in March 1834, William Cox of Hobartville was assigned two male convicts, one a farm s...

There are 9 islands in Sydney Harbour: Shark, Clark, Garden, Fort Dennison. Goat, Cockatoo, Spectacle, Snapper and Rodd. Thus far, I have bl...

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