Halstead Press

Pneumatics, Ship-building, Phrenology and more: the founding and history of Sydney’s flagship vocational school.

Robert Likeman uncovers the stories of the hundreds of Australian doctors who kept WWII troops together between the attack on Pearl Harbour the fall of Gona.

There is a difference between knowing a house and knowing about it.

“Sometimes people just trip over a history.” (more…)

There is a story in every house, from the people who commissioned, designed and built them, to those who lived in them.

Ageing is a part of life, so let’s talk about it. (more…)

“A remarkable survival in a city that has all too often been driven by the lure of real-estate riches at the expense of history and heritage.” Megan Martin Former Head of Collections and Access, Sydney Living Museums (more…)

  Before email and fax machines, businesses communicated via telex or cable. Business stationery carried a telex number or cable address. For Halstead Press, the cable address — later adopted as its staff journal name — was Fragment. We're keeping the name alive with these Fragments, where Halstead Press authors air the ideas behind their books. Fragments Tribute to Oswald…

  However modern we might feel, corruption is a pre-existing and ongoing fact of Sydney life. Certainly this is the implication of Lesley Muir’s marvellous book. – Elizabeth Farrelly (more…)

A History of the Manning Valley This area lies about 300km north of Sydney, where the earliest European settlers first arrived in the late 1820s. The Manning River runs through this rugged, isolated terrain, and this was to become the region's main highway throughout the 19th Century. It is a valley with a rich history, a hidden gem with a…