The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet
Join us for a conversation with Suzanne Falkiner, author of a biography of Rose de Freycinet, the first woman to write an account of a global circumnavigation.
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Murphy Wallpaper Collection
The recent donation to the Caroline Simpson Library of thousands of wallpapers in the John and Phyllis Murphy Collection means that Museums of History NSW now has the largest holding of historical wallpapers in Australia
![Vivienne Chaffer : Colour [interior design student workbook]](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/b09f1f0c5831414a9ae3b0baf97b548d.jpg)
Phyllis Shillito and her colour curriculum 1945–1979
This event focused on the colour curriculum of pioneering Sydney-based colour designer and educator Phyllis Shillito (1895–1980) of the 1940s to the 1970s
Historic colour in the home
The many sources in the Caroline Simpson Library that can bring colour to the homes of past, with Matthew Stephens
