Rare film: ANZAC troops at Gallipoli
This footage is believed to have been shot by Mr. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the English journalist who gave Australia its first description of the ANZAC troops at Gallipoli.
Read MoreGolden Grove to Norfolk Island October 1788
Shipping records for the Golden Grove is now ready to sail with one midshipman, for Norfolk Island one serjeant, one corporal , and five privates , twenty men and ten women convicts. These will make the number on Norfolk Island sixty, and I send eighteen months' provisions in October 1788.
Read MoreJewish Deaths in Sydney pre 1820
SAMUELS, Joseph. Sent for execution Sept 1803 Joseph Samuels had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mary Breeze, at Sydney, on the 25 Aug 1803, and stealing there from a writing desk, in which were contained 50 Dollars, 3 guineas, 2 Pieces of Gold Coin and sundry articles etc., etc. he most The day sent for the execution is the solemn day of the Jewish year – Yom Kippur (Day of Attonement). It is the first record of Hebrew prayers being chanted in public in...
Read MoreChristmas Day Baptisms 1804
Sydney Gazette Sunday 30 December 1804. On Sunday last and on Christmas Day the ceremony of baptism was performed by the Rev. Mr. Marsden on two and twenty children at Sydney and Parramatta. They include Christmas Day Baptism 1804 at St Phillips Sydney.
Read MoreGovernor Hunter & His First Fleet Sketchbook
A Steady Hand is a new perspective that traces the extraordinary life of John Hunter, First Fleet sea captain, colonial governor and artist, complemented by faithful, full-colour reproductions of every painting in John Hunter’s First Fleet sketchbook. Throughout the years of the First Fleet, Hunter kept a sketchbook. Its pages contained some of the earliest artistic impressions of birds, flowers and fishes and people found in and around Sydney, Norfolk and Lord Howe islands.
Read MoreRemembrance Day 11 November
On Monday 11 November 1918 at 11 am the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare.
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