State Archives Collection
Designing Your Local: Hotel Plans in the NSW State Archives Collection
Under the Sale of Liquor Act 1881, applications for liquor licences were submitted to the local Licensing Court for consideration. This Act required licensed premises to meet a minimum standard of accommodation.
A glimpse of Nellie Small at the Ziegfeld Café
The aim of this article is to describe a record set from the State Archives Collection and provide an example of the queer stories that can be found within them.
Harry Sidney Foy: death of a much-loved entertainer
The aim of this article is to describe two record sets from the State Archives Collection and provide an example of the queer stories that can be found within them.
The Purple Onion: one of Sydney’s most significant early gay venues
The aim of this article is to describe a record set from the State Archives Collection and provide an example of the queer stories that can be found within them.
‘Confused heaps’ and ‘systematic order’: Keeping records in 19th-century NSW
This webinar examines how records and the work of their keepers was organised and explore the material world of those ‘charged with the arrangement and care of Records’.
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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.
Talk
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
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
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