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This section is updated regularly, check back regularly for updates.
On this website you will find rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the My Place TV series in the classroom. Explore background information, aligned with the My Place stories, on events and people significant to Australia's history. Download clips and stills from the TV series, as well as teaching activities and student activity sheets that relate to current themes. Go behind the scenes with production information and interviews.
Barani is an Aboriginal word of the Sydney language that means ‘yesterday’.
The Barani website provides histories of people, places and events in the City of Sydney local government area that are associated with the histories of Sydney’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Aboriginal people have an unbroken and ongoing connection with the City of Sydney. The Barani website reveals some of these associations, their histories and their cultures.
Links to City of Sydney's 'Barani' website
Until 1782, English convicts were transported to America. However, in 1783 the American War of Independence ended. America refused to accept any more convicts so England had to find somewhere else to send their prisoners. Transportation to New South Wales was the solution.
Find out more about why convicts were transported to Australia.
Links to Sydney Living Museums
Source: Sydney Living Museums.
Find out what life was like for convict in the colonial period in Sydney Town
Links to Sydney Living Museums.
Is there a convict in your family? Visit a single searchable database containing certificates of freedom; bank accounts; deaths; exemptions from Government Labor; pardons; tickets of leave; and, tickets of leave passports. There are 140,000+ entries to search.
Links to NSW State Archives and Records
A website exploring convicts in the early colony of Sydney
Links to Sydney Living Museums
A blog from the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, the former place managers of The Rocks.
Links to Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, about 7000 arrived in 1833 alone.. Find out more about convict transportation to Australia.
Links to National Museum of Australia
The Big Dig site, between Cumberland and Gloucester Streets in The Rocks, is an area of land containing archaeological remains from the late 18th century, the time of Australia’s first European settlement.
Links to The Big Dig Archaeology Centre
Most family historians in Australia regard a convict in their ancestry as enormously desirable. "Convicts to Australia" is intended to guide, inform and entertain those just starting the hunt as well as the more experienced researcher. The site is a 'work in progress' and data is being added regularly. We hope your convict research is made easier by our efforts and above all we hope you have FUN.
Observatory Hill Environmental Education Centre - NSW Department of Education
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