Stories

On 29 April 1770, the Gweagal people of Kamay (Botany Bay) discovered James Cook and his crew as they sailed into the bay and came ashore. The eight days that followed changed the course of Australia’s history. 250 years later the events of those eight days and their continuing impact are still being debated, contested, felt.

It’s just a bag of peas, she told herself. I can order more online. So why was she crying?

An Aboriginal leader’s assistance to the artists of the Newcastle penal settlement led to an unprecedented visual record of the local Indigenous people.

In the Golden Age of Cartography, the first atlases combined the skills of the mapmaker with the ingenuity of the publisher.