Borough’s beginnings: Mayor Taylor’s l …
Patrick Taylor was elected to Mosman’s first council in June 1893 and elected Mayor in 1896.…
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Images found: A personal retrospective.
As the 100th anniversary to the ending of the war to end all wars draws near,…
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Cobbers remembered: Fromelles 19/06/1916
Sugarloaf: no picnic Men of the 53rd Battalion in a trench in their front line a…
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Plated Up: Australian Community War Memorials on C …
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Simadas will present an overview of Australian community war memorials, the distinctive types…
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Saving Our Private Ryan and Sgt. Wilkinson’s …
Private Ryan and Sgt Wilkinson two very different stories of two very different men and their…
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Cobbers remembered: Lost Diggers of the 53rd
Top Imperial German Army sign board, taken from the roadside leading into Fromelles, opposite the trenches…
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Cobbers remembered: Allan Allsop’s ‘te …
‘Allan’ Allsop worked tirelessly as a Stretcher-bearer behind front lines of Fromelles on the night of…
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Conscription 1916-17: the votes that split the nat …
Rally! Rally! Rally! A Mosman Library Doing Our Bit event In 1916 Prime Minister Billy Hughes…
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Viewing the monkey enclosure: perspectives left an …
Photographs of strike-breakers at Taronga Zoo and a digitised image of a letter written by a…