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How Hyde Park replaced Aboriginal ceremonial ground

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How Hyde Park replaced Aboriginal ceremonial ground

When Sydney’s Hyde Park began life as a racecourse, its role in a significant Aboriginal tradition was lost.

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How First Fleet’s forgotten men helped shape a nation

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How First Fleet’s forgotten men helped shape a nation

From the carnage of Gallipoli to the Test cricket arena, the descendants of 10 African First Fleeters have played pivotal, but often overlooked, roles in our history.

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When ice used to be a rare, expensive commodity

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When ice used to be a rare, expensive commodity

Once a luxury only the rich could afford, blocks of ice used to be shipped to Australia from America — until we discovered a way to manufacture it on our own. Plus more NSW history.

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Sordid truth behind Blue Mountains’ teen ghost

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Sordid truth behind Blue Mountains’ teen ghost

Said to appear to travellers on the road to Lithgow, Caroline Collits knew little but neglect and abuse in her tragically short life. Here’s the story behind her haunting.

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FOR SATURDAY HISTORY PAGE AUGUST 28, 2020 Historical shot of Henson Park Supplied Inner West Council

Iconic rugby league field was ‘pool of death’

Home to some of the most colourful stories in the rugby league game, few people know Henson Park in Marrickville is also the site of eight child drownings. The site used to be a brick pit and once it filled with rainwater, became a magnet for young boys. MORE: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Marie Denise Villers, Marie Josephine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes, 1801. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Supplied for Elizabeth Fortescue

Century of intrigue for Met’s woman of mystery

The portrait of a beautiful young French woman, visiting Australia as part of a major exhibition next year, has thrown out many tempting clues for art historians.

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Colin Ridgway Australian high jumper VFL player with Dallas Cowboys NFL 1965

Murder ended NFL pioneer’s American dream

Australia’s first NFL recruit Colin Ridgway had a fair share of good luck during his life, but it ran out in tragic circumstances when he was shot dead in his Texas home in a murder that remains unsolved almost three decades later.

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Australia’s fight to the death against ravages of disease

As the world lives in dire fear of a global pandemic starting from cases of coronavirus in China, we can still take some lessons from past outbreaks of disease.

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Devoted model inspired Matisse’s final artwork

Lydia Delectorskaya fled revolution and became an indispensable assistant to one of the world’s most famous artists.

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Artist Salvador Dali with comedian Harpo Marx after giving him the Christmas gift of an artwork of a harp with barbed wire strings. Circa 1936-37 Out of copyright

History’s most unusual Christmas presents

From a barbed wire harp to an elephant, these are some of the gifts you won’t find under the tree this week.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 3/12/19 Young dancers from GB Dance Co. in Chipping Norton pictured in the foyer of the new

Ancient history behind Sydney’s ‘epic’ Coliseum theatre

Sydney has a brand new entertainment venue at Rooty Hill. But as new as it is, the Sydney Coliseum owes some of the inspiration for its name to Rome’s legendary Colosseum.

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Rebel cricketer told officer to ‘Get stuffed’

As dashing in uniform as he was on the cricket pitch Keith Miller was never one to bow to authority

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Original Charlie’s Angels trio dismissed as ‘jiggle TV’

They were smart, professional and stylish and part of an action series with a comic edge that helped pave the way for women crime busters on television

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British Prime Minister (later Sir) Winston Churchill in 1901, fresh from the Boer War and an enemy prison camp. Picture: Photo File

On this day: Winston Churchill’s great prison escape

The future British PM was an ambitious young journalist caught up in a war zone when he pulled off a breakout worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster

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