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Historical Walks Courses | WEA Sydney

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Sydney Historical Walks 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.


Bouncing Back: The Disasters Windsor Survived

Bouncing Back: The Disasters Windsor Survived

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Explore the fires, floods, rebellions and epidemics Windsor endured, and discover how this historic town kept recovering and rebuilding.
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$71 Limited inc GST / $64

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

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Travel back in time to discuss Sydney's most fundamental building material. From colonial kilns to modern mass production, explore how brick shaped the city’s homes, streets, industries, and identities across more than two centuries of change.
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$61 Limited inc GST / $55

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

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Discover the lives of Liverpool’s colonial dead on a guided walk through graves, scandals, triumphs and forgotten local history.
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$51 Limited inc GST / $46

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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Razorhurst: Crime Queens, Razor Gangs and the Underworld

Razorhurst: Crime Queens, Razor Gangs and the Underworld

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Step into the dark glamour of Razorhurst and uncover the gang wars, sly grog shops, brothels and crime queens of old Sydney.
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$61 Limited inc GST / $55

Razorhurst: Crime Queens, Razor Gangs and the Underworld

<p>Enter the violent, colourful world of Razorhurst, where Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine ruled rival criminal empires across Kings Cross, Darlinghurst and Surry Hills. This course brings to life the

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Campbelltown: Discover a Hidden Macquarie Town

Campbelltown: Discover a Hidden Macquarie Town

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Explore one of New South Wales' most significant heritage precincts and uncover the fascinating people, buildings and stories that shaped early colonial Campbelltown.
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$55 Limited inc GST / $50

Campbelltown: Discover a Hidden Macquarie Town

<p>Campbelltown is one of New South Wales' hidden historical treasures. Beyond its well-preserved nineteenth-century streetscape lie the stories of remarkable figures including Caroline Chisholm,

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Wilkie Collins in Sydney: Fiction Meets Colonial History

Wilkie Collins in Sydney: Fiction Meets Colonial History

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Discover how the sensational novels of Wilkie Collins echo the scandals, mysteries and colourful characters of colonial Sydney on this fascinating walking tour.
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$99 Limited inc GST / $89

Wilkie Collins in Sydney: Fiction Meets Colonial History

<p>Wilkie Collins' sensational novels captivated readers throughout the nineteenth century—including many in colonial Sydney. This walking tour explores locations around Macquarie Street, Hyde Park,

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Old South Head Road Coastal Walk

Old South Head Road Coastal Walk

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Discover Sydney's spectacular harbour entrance on a guided walk exploring shipwrecks, maritime history, grand homes and remarkable characters.
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$77 Limited inc GST / $69

Old South Head Road Coastal Walk

<p>Explore one of Sydney's most beautiful coastal walks while uncovering centuries of history. From dramatic ocean views and famous shipwrecks to Watsons Bay, grand villas and stories of explorers,

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Kirribilli - Water, Stone and Tree

Kirribilli - Water, Stone and Tree

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Sydney Harbour's beauty can be appreciated as we walk the foreshore of Milsons Point and Kirribilli, the site of grand and humble buildings and people.
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$77 Limited inc GST / $69

Kirribilli - Water, Stone and Tree

<p>Just north of the major settlement of colonial Sydney Town, a small community developed slowly around significant land purchases by Robert Campbell and later James Milson. In time some grand marine

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Grand Estates of Vaucluse: Sydney's Colonial Harbour Mansions

Grand Estates of Vaucluse: Sydney's Colonial Harbour Mansions

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Explore Sydney's magnificent harbour estates and discover the history, architecture and landscapes of Vaucluse House, Greycliffe and Strickland House.
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$99 Limited inc GST / $89

Grand Estates of Vaucluse: Sydney's Colonial Harbour Mansions

<p>The magnificent estates of Vaucluse, Greycliffe and Strickland House tell the story of Sydney's colonial elite and their relationship with one of the world's great harbours. This guided walk

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South Head: Guardian of Sydney Harbour

South Head: Guardian of Sydney Harbour

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Explore South Head's spectacular landscapes and discover its rich history of maritime navigation, defence, science and early settlement.
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$99 Limited inc GST / $89

South Head: Guardian of Sydney Harbour

<p>South Head has welcomed ships into Sydney Harbour for more than two centuries. This fascinating guided walk explores the Hornby Lighthouse, military fortifications, Camp Cove, the Marine Biological

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