Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), pictured here ...

Beginning in the late 1860s, hundreds of people lived and worked in Humberstone ... or saltpeter. In the early 19th century, Europeans on the hunt for saltpeter to use in gunpowder turned their ...