Courses
Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Experience history through the places and stories around you.
Explore local history through guided walks that bring historical events, people, and places to life. These courses connect historical knowledge with real-world locations, offering an engaging and accessible way to experience history in context.
Highs and Lows of Sydney: Darlinghurst to Surry Hills
Highs and Lows of Sydney: Darlinghurst to Surry Hills
<p>This walking course explores Sydney’s social geography from ridge tops to low-lying streets. We examine how class, institutions and urban planning shaped Darlinghurst and Surry Hills, revealing
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La Perouse: First Contact and Later Connections
La Perouse: First Contact and Later Connections
<p>La Perouse is one of Australia’s most significant sites of first contact and cross-cultural encounter. This course explores the layered histories of the La Perouse peninsula on Botany Bay, from
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First Fleeters and First Nations on the Hawkesbury
First Fleeters and First Nations on the Hawkesbury
<p>This Windsor walk explores an early and confronting moment in frontier history. Centered on First Fleeter Robert Forrester and the 1795 murder charge over the killing of an Aboriginal boy, the
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The Disappearance of Juanita Nielsen
The Disappearance of Juanita Nielsen
<p>On 4 July 1975, activist and heiress Juanita Nielsen walked into the Carousel Nightclub in Kings Cross and vanished. This course revisits one of Australia’s most haunting unsolved cases and places
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Sketching in the Botanic Gardens
Sketching in the Botanic Gardens
<p>Enjoy a gentle, creative walk through the Botanic Gardens while developing your sketching skills in a supportive group. This course introduces a range of materials and approaches, including pen and
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Brooklyn: River, Rail, Road and Federation
Brooklyn: River, Rail, Road and Federation
<p>Just an hour north of Sydney, Brooklyn sits between the Hawkesbury River and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park in a setting where transport history, natural beauty and local stories meet. This course
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Twenty Mile Hollow History Walk
Twenty Mile Hollow History Walk
<p>Join this train-friendly history walk in the mid Blue Mountains, beginning with a guided tour of heritage-listed Woodford Academy, once an inn and sly-grog shop. A small $10 fee, payable on the day
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Bouncing Back: The Disasters Windsor Survived
Bouncing Back: The Disasters Windsor Survived
<p>Windsor may be one of the jewels of the Macquarie Towns, but its history has been marked by repeated disaster. This course explores the natural and human-made crises that tested the town, from
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Brick Built This City: Walking The Brick Mile
Brick Built This City: Walking The Brick Mile
<p>From around 1880, The economic history of this industry has left its imprint (literally) through brick constructions evident across the Inner West and far beyond. Advances in technology, the spread
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Liverpool Pioneer Memorial Park: Stories from the Cemetery
Liverpool Pioneer Memorial Park: Stories from the Cemetery
<p>Beneath the quiet ground of Liverpool Pioneer Memorial Park lie the stories of people who helped shape New South Wales. This guided course uncovers dramatic, moving and sometimes surprising lives
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