History Week

3 – 11 September 2022

Our state’s annual festival of history

Themed 'Hands On History', this years innovative program features online talks and lectures, heritage trails, interactive workshops, and valuable learnings from Indigenous history.

Hear about our history

Talks

Online

Talks, courses & workshops

Hands-on history in the City Archives

Discover over one million resources about the Sydney local government area, and the stories within them.

Sydney culture walks app

Sydney‌’‌s history in your pocket

Learn little-known facts about Sydney's streets, suburbs and stories on your own private walking tour.

Learn something new about the past

Exhibitions

Customs House Library

Exhibitions

Developing Sydney: capturing change 1900-1920

Photographs from the Sydney Municipal Council: 1900 to 1920

Hyde Park Barracks

Tours & experiences

Hyde Park Barracks experience

More than 200 years old, the Hyde Park Barracks provides an extraordinary new way to experience history

Customs House

Exhibitions

The Customs House Sydney

Historic photographs, artworks and moving footage illustrate the history and evolution of Sydney’s Customs House

Anzac Memorial

Exhibitions

The Centenary Exhibition

The evolution of Australian military service, focusing on the personal stories of NSW service.

Anzac Memorial

Exhibitions

Remembering Australia’s War in Vietnam, 1962–72

Discover the lived experiences of veterans of Australia's war in Vietnam through the stories of four Australians

Get hands on this History Week

Workshops

Online

Talks, courses & workshops

Hands-on history in the City Archives

Discover over one million resources about the Sydney local government area, and the stories within them.

Explore early photographs of Sydney

Developing Sydney

This interactive map based on the exhibition highlights photographs commissioned by Sydney Municipal Council between 1900 and 1920 known as the ‘Demolition Books’.

Go out and about