Sydney Historical Walks
Uncover the hidden past of Sydney with our historical walking tours. Led by knowledgeable guides, these courses reveal the stories behind the city’s buildings, monuments, and streets. Explore Sydney’s unique heritage while enjoying the charm of one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
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The Rum Rebellion - A Walking Tour
<p>The Rum Rebellion was both dramatic and influential, yet it remains curiously low key in public memory. As our only military coup orchestrated by the volatile, brilliant, and opportunistic
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Dickensian Sydney - His Stories and Ours
<p>Dickens created world full of secrets, scandals, and drama – and on this tour we can find that world right here through many of Sydney’s stories from the past. This is your chance to discover or
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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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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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Circling the Square: A Story Saunter around Hyde Park
<p>Hyde Park forms a green heart to the City of Sydney, rimmed round with some of our most significant and beautiful historic buildings. Join us as we saunter through the park appreciating St Mary’s
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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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Castle Hill - Living on the Edge
<p>On 4 March 1804 convicts rose from this Castle Hill penal settlement for the Battle of Vinegar Hill. Today we can re trace their steps, exploring the now-lovely parkland to discover the traces of
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Australian Women's History in the City: A Walking Tour
<p>Join professional Tour Guide Jo Henwood as she reveals the stories of significant but often-forgotten women who changed our lives as we walk the Sydney CBD. There are few statues or plaques to
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Sydney Olympic Park: From Fishing Nets to Olympic Rings
<p>Sydney Olympic Park holds many layered histories beyond the 2000 Games. This course explores the site’s transformation from industry and estates to Olympic spectacle, uncovering stories of land use
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Wonderful Women of Windsor
<p>If we were to take a survey surely at least half the population would agree that the women of Windsor are awesome! Not just now, but in the past the women were great too, living as they did in a
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