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On the Bench: Records of the Lower Courts of NSW

This webinar explores the bench books held in the NSW State Archives Collection. These wonderful volumes record the minutes of proceedings of various Benches of Magistrates as well as later Courts of Petty Sessions.

J. Ratner & Co. Pty Ltd., furniture manufacturers, Newtown (NSW): Furniture design drawings, photographs, order book, Ratner family architectural plans [archive]

Original designs for furniture, textiles, wallpaper, leadlights and stained glass

The Caroline Simpson Library holds a significant body of original designs for furniture, furnishing textiles, wallpaper, leadlight windows and stained glass

Sylvia Evans at her dressing table in her bedroom at Alwyn, Arncliffe, around 1927 / Alan Evans

Fatshaudi commissioned works

We commissioned a range of musicians to create new compositions for Dream Feast in response to sheet music held in the Caroline Simpson Library Collection. One of the musicians, Fatshaudi (Brisbane-based producer Rachael Ryan), shares her experience

On a tour with palms: a botanical foray into the Caroline Simpson Library

A search for palms in the museum collections took this researcher on a journey back to a time when these plants were considered an essential addition to the tasteful home

Walford, 7 Knox Street, Double Bay, December 1967 [photographer unknown]

Leslie Walford Archive

For nearly 50 years Leslie Walford AM (1927–2012) was one of Sydney’s most successful interior designers, the decorator of choice for the city’s social elite and a leading figure in the Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA).

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Vital Records: Tracing Births, Deaths and Marriages in NSW

Join us for a full-day seminar on the vital records that are key to all forms of historical research – births, deaths and marriages

Friday 7 August 9am–4.30pm
Distribution of 50 free girls (from the Foundling Hospital, Cork) who arrived July 1831 by the Palambam
Online talk

‘Most came because their fare was paid for them’: NSW assisted immigration

Join us for this webinar led by Dr Richard Reid, to get a glimpse of the treasures in the NSW State Archives Collection that illuminate the assisted emigrant journey

Friday 28 August 10.30am–11.30am
DEVONSHIRE STREET CEMETERY, SYDNEY TERMINAL, SYDNEY TERMINAL NSW

The Reinterment of Devonshire Street Cemetery

This webinar explores the records from the NSW State Archives Collection that reveal the history of one of Sydney’s oldest burial grounds and the mammoth job of reinterring those buried there to allow for the construction of Central Railway Station