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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.


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Liverpool: Macquarie Town

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Explore Liverpool, one of Macquarie's planned towns. Discover colonial street-scapes, Greenway architecture and stories of ambition, order and everyday life.
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$66 Limited inc GST / $59

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

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Walk Sydney's social landscape from hilltops to lowlands. Explore how class, institutions and architecture shaped Darlinghurst and Surry Hills over time.
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$77 Limited inc GST / $69

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

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Discover the layered history of La Perouse on Botany Bay. Explore first contact, later connections and the enduring cultural significance of this remarkable coastal place.
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$66 Limited inc GST / $59

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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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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Sketching in the Botanic Gardens

Drawing and Painting Courses
Step into the Botanic Gardens for relaxed outdoor sketching, with guidance in ink, pastel and other techniques to bring scenes to life.
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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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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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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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Brooklyn: River, Rail, Road and Federation

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Discover Brooklyn’s rich history where river, rail and road meet, from Federation and rail disasters to film, oysters and local legend.
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The Disappearance of Juanita Nielsen

Sydney Historical Walking Tours
Examine the still-unsolved disappearance of Juanita Nielsen and the web of power, activism and violence surrounding 1970s Kings Cross. What happened, and why?
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