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Photograph documenting the archaeological dig at the site of First Government House
Talk

Breaking Ground: Women in Archaeology

This enlightening conversation will examine the significant role played by women in the development of archaeology as a field in Australia

Thursday 5 March 6pm–7pm
Featured display

A century of colour charts: 1880–1980

Contemporary interiors seem to reject colour in favour of ‘greige’, off-whites, and neutrals. Yet for many centuries the choice and concentration of colour for the decoration of interiors reflected wealth, status, and fashion

Monday 2 March 4.30pm–invalid datetime
Special event

Dream Feast

Activate your senses at Dream Feast, a communal dining experience where food, music, moving image and history come together in the historic and atmospheric surrounds of The Mint in Sydney

Tuesday 2 June 6pm–8.30pm
Online talk

‘Confused heaps’ and ‘systemic order’: Keeping records in 19th-century NSW

Join us for a fascinating talk that uncovers how official records were created, kept and carefully (and sometimes not so carefully) stored in 19th–century NSW

Tuesday 9 June 10.30am–11.30am
Proceedings [Judge Advocate's Bench]
Online talk

On the Bench: Records of the Lower Courts of NSW

Join us for this webinar that will explore the bench books held in the NSW State Archives Collection

Friday 15 May 10.30am–11.30am
Online talk

The ‘Old Register’: Illuminating Early Colonial NSW

Join us for this webinar which will explore the ‘Old Register’ and what it can tell us about early colonial NSW

Friday 27 March 10.30am–11.30am
Hotel Victoria, William and Victoria Streets, Darlinghurst, Plans for re-erection, corner elevation, elevations to William and Victoria Streets, Architect E Lindsay - Thompson, King Street, Sydney, Lodged 23 January 1914, signed 30 November 1914
Online talk

Designing Your Local: Hotel Plans in the NSW State Archives Collection

Join us for this webinar which will explore the beautiful plans of historic NSW pubs held in the State Archives Collection

Friday 26 June 10.30am–11.30am
DEVONSHIRE STREET CEMETERY, SYDNEY TERMINAL, SYDNEY TERMINAL NSW
Online talk

The Reinterment of Devonshire Street Cemetery

Join us for this webinar exploring records from the NSW State Archives Collection that reveal the history of one of Sydney’s oldest burial grounds

Friday 24 April 10.30am–11.30am
Woodgraining tools, rollers, stamps, combs

Caroline Simpson Collection

Home and garden design, history and life