Opening of Sydney Arcade changes retail history
This city was a long way behind Melbourne when it came to embracing the joys of retail therapy where shoppers could find everything they wanted under one roof.
Today In History
Model of a modern garden suburb
They are now some of our most sought-after addresses across Sydney thanks to planners’ forward thinking in designing these garden suburbs.
How Australia Day started as a fundraiser in July
A woman who created Australia Day as a fundraiser in midst of World War I started a popular tradition which benefited our soldiers on the battlefront.
Myth buster: Australian history debunked
They are the stories Australians hold dear. But many are simply not true. We take a look at some moments in history including whether Ned Kelly was a freedom fighter or if Captain Cook ‘discovered’ Australia.
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Memories of devastating 1955 Maitland floods live on
The Maitland floods of 1955 took a huge toll on lives and property, like 21 houses on one street washing downstream and fell apart. But there were also amazing stories of survival.
Mortuary train took dead bodies to final burial place
From 1867 to 1938, the richest Sydney residents along with the poorest were taken to be buried the same way — by a special train to Rookwood Cemetery.
Acting triumph of the other Richard Burton
It was a great acting triumph, Richard Burton acted the part of a pilgrim on the way to Mecca so that he could write about what he saw. Not Burton the Welsh actor but Burton the 19th century linguist and adventurer
Newtown housewife who used poison to kill two husbands
When Yvonne Fletcher’s second husband died in a similar manner to her first, police soon discovered the reason why — poison — which sparked a surge of copycat cases, predominantly by Sydney housewives.
How the ‘human glove’ murder case was solved
A man’s decomposed body was found in Wagga Wagga’s Murrumbidgee River in 1933. To help solve his murder, police were able to catch the killer by tracing his fingerprints from a glove.
Nurse who died while treating soldiers at Quarantine Station
Annie Egan realised her dream to become a nurse but the Gunnedah local lost her life to the Spanish flu while treating WWI soldiers at Quarantine Station at Manly in 1918.
Prince’s Sydney stay ends in shock death at hotel
A CBD address was both the city’s first beer garden and the place where our first royal visitor lost his life after taking ill while on tour in 1866.
Mystery of Australia’s most haunted road
There have been many reports of people seeing a woman in a white dress appearing along a stretch of the Wakehurst Parkway. So who haunts this lonely road and why?
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