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Cultural historian and storyteller Warren Fahey has created a dozen video stories about Sydney's unique hidden history.
Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey features footage from over 40 titles from the...
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Folklorist, author and performer Warren Fahey has produced an online series of Sydney Stories, featuring footage from the NFSA collection.
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This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey takes a look at the Sydney Show – where the country comes to town – and especially the curios of Sideshow Alley.
Sydney abounds with curious history....
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This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey includes an overview of Sydney’s ‘high life’ down through the decades from the Lord Mayor’s 1844 Fancy Dress Ball to dancing at the Trocadero and...
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This final episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey takes a look at colloquial expressions, folklore and other nonsense relating to Sydneysiders and the Emerald City.
Sydney abounds with curious...
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Through the story of 'Frank the Poet’, an early convict rebel, we explore Sydney’s dark convict past.
This episode is part of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey.
Sydney abounds with curious history....
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This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey offers a social history of Kings Cross entertainment from the high life to the low life, and explains why the suburb remains such a special part of...
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This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey examines how Sydney children have amused themselves over the years.
Sydney abounds with curious history. Some stories are known but many have...
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This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey looks at stories from the Sydney Push and early folk revival, a subculture popularised by critical thinking and 'critical drinking'.
Sydney abounds...
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In this episode of Sydney Stories, Warren Fahey offers a snapshot of Sydney’s Chinese community and how they coped with persecution and harassment to emerge as a successful story of multiculturalism...