Video
![Owner bound volume of assorted songs, in the collection of Rouse Hill House & Farm, 1850-1864. [music]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/10/3810c07fd7fc4a78bcb41f48b8597385.jpg)
‘Hearts and Homes’
Little-known today, composer and music publisher John Blockley (1800-1882) was well-represented in the drawing rooms of Sydney in the 19th century
Watch: Demolished Sydney
The skyline of Sydney has undergone constant change as buildings rise and fall
Milk - The White River of Life, 1946
Milk and its health and nutritional benefits, demonstrated through a domestic science class on milk and milk-based products and their use in cooking
Meet the movie maker
To launch a fundraising campaign to mark the centenary of Vaucluse House as a public museum, Sydney Living Museums worked with Gregory Read from Paperbark Films
First Nations
How to weave an opera house
Inspired by a stunning shellworked model of the Sydney Opera House by Bidjigal artist Esme Timbery, First Nations curator Tess Allas commissioned a woven model of the iconic building from master weavers Steven Russell and Phyllis Stewart
Colonial Secretary letters received, 1826-1896
This webinar explores how to search the index to the records, what you may find and how to access the records
Queering the Interior: London, New York, Sydney, 1882–1929
Design practices of five figures from queer history: Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, American actress and interior designer Elsie de Wolfe, and Australian artists Eirene Mort, Roy de Maistre and Adrian Feint (1894–1971)
Dr Jack Mundey AO (1929-2020)
Jack Mundey, a dedicated environmentalist and unionist, was as committed to ‘the workers’ as he was to our historic sites, and is fondly remembered by all who knew him