Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Experience Sydney's history through guided walks that bring stories to life in real locations. Learn while exploring significant sites and landmarks. Ideal for those who enjoy active, place-based learning.
Art Deco and More - Sydney CBD Walking Tour
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Art Deco and More - Sydney CBD Walking Tour
<p>Sydney’s CBD contains a rich collection of Art Deco and early modern buildings that reveal changing ideas about style, progress and city life. This guided walking tour explores landmark structures
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The Twisted Rocks
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The Twisted Rocks
<p>The Rocks is the oldest neighbourhood in Australia, filled with buildings from 1815 on, all bearing witness to a varied, quirky, story-rich past. Join us exploring these winding paths, discovering
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Woolwich: Between the Harbour and the Hill
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Woolwich: Between the Harbour and the Hill
<p>Woolwich combines harbour views, bushland and historic buildings shaped by long community effort. This course explores Woolwich’s transformation from industrial and military uses to a valued
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Dickensian Characters in Sydney
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Dickensian Characters in Sydney
<p>Charles Dickens’ vivid characters captured poverty, ambition and social change in 19th-century England. This walking-based course brings Dickens’ spirit to Sydney, exploring local places and
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Victorian and Federation Sydney - Sydney CBD Walking Tour
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Victorian and Federation Sydney - Sydney CBD Walking Tour
<p>This guided walking tour explores Sydney’s Victorian and Federation-era architecture in the heart of the CBD. We examine how buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries reflect changing
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Clash of Cultures on the Hawkesbury (Oxberry/Dyarubbin) River
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Clash of Cultures on the Hawkesbury (Oxberry/Dyarubbin) River
<p>This course explores one of the most significant early contact zones in colonial New South Wales, centered on the Hawkesbury/Nepean River at Windsor. Through place-based history, we examine
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Liverpool: Macquarie Town
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Liverpool: Macquarie Town
<p>Liverpool was one of Governor Macquarie’s planned satellite towns, designed to bring order, infrastructure and civic life to the early colony. This course explores Liverpool’s colonial origins,
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Highs and Lows of Sydney: Darlinghurst to Surry Hills
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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
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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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Birds and Bridges at the Nepean River