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Manning Clark had a long association with the Library and much of his research for A History of Australia was carried out in the Library. In the final volume he wrote, ‘The Petherick Room, the Manuscripts Room, and the Newspaper Room are present in every page of this volume, just as they are always present in my heart’. In 1989 he donated the first instalment of his papers under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme. Further papers were transferred in 1990–91. He bequeathed his rem...

How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney Stories of businesspeople bold, colourful, generous and ruthless have appeared in the Herald for 190 years. They’re moguls who would shape the city’s history and, indeed, the history of the paper itself. Normal text size Very large text size W​hen businessman Samuel Terry died in 1838, a military regiment ...

The Sydney Morning Herald is a home. It opens its front door and we know we will be nourished with knowledge and involvement. The loneliness disappears and we find friends on each page as the stories fill our hearts. We are left overjoyed with news of someone once lost but now found. We are educated in complicated finance, made aware of real estate, technology and environmental issues; everything is there. Thank you Herald for the education, the political and sport coverage and other stories,...

From Hornsby to Hurstville, Asquith to the Appin Way, there is no-one for whom The Sydney Morning Herald has provided the personal and professional drum-beat of life as much as for the venerable journalist and author Gavin Souter AC. And no man more qualified to pass astute judgment on us, from the overview of history. Retired veteran Herald reporter Gavin Souter. Credit:Edwina Pickles Among his first memories of growing up in Hunters Hill was the hefty thump of the Herald landing on the fron...

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Shaken to the core: the untold story of Sidney Nolan at Auschwitz We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Andrew Turley Normal text size Advertisement Few artists have captured our history as forcefully as Sidney Nolan. His most iconic works – from a stylised Ned Kelly to the doomed explorers Burke and Wills – are synonymous with Australian modernism. And yet there are aspects of Nolan’s own history that remain virtually unknown. One of the...