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Catalogues of Lost Dreams

House contents have been sold at auction in Sydney for over 200 years. Discover the gossip behind these sales and view auction catalogues

Apprentice photographers at Sydney Technical College, 1955
Online talk

Five Things to Discover in the Photographic Archive of the Government Printing Office

Join this webinar to explore the 20th-century photography of the NSW Government Printing Office. Learn the stories behind these images and how you can access them

Friday 30 October 10.30am–11.30am
(Left) Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly, bushranger, c1880; (right) telegram re Kelly Gang, 1880
Online talk

The Ned Kelly Papers

Join us for this webinar exploring the life and crimes of Australia’s most notorious bushranger, featuring recently digitised records from the NSW State Archives Collection.

Friday 27 November 10.30am–11.30am
(Left) Cover of surveyor field book, 1932; (right) surveyor at work, c1913
Online talk

NSW Surveyor Field Books: What Every Researcher Needs to Know

Join us for this webinar to learn how to access these fabulous records detailing the landscapes of NSW and explore the information they contain.

Friday 25 September 10.30am–11.30am

‘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’.

Proceedings [Judge Advocate's Bench]

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.

Distribution of 50 free girls (from the Foundling Hospital, Cork) who arrived July 1831 by the Palambam
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
DEVONSHIRE STREET CEMETERY, SYDNEY TERMINAL, SYDNEY TERMINAL NSW

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

Record for Stephen Carroll in the Vernon Industrial School Entrance Book, 1897

Vernon and Sobraon: Nautical Training Ships for Boys

This webinar explores the stories of the inmates of the nautical training ships the Vernon and the Sobraon