Now a richer history of Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks has lifted the lid on what everyday life for women was like at the former female immigration depot and asylum during the 19th century.

The Hyde Park Barracks Museum also served as a hostel for orphan girls fleeing the Irish Potato Famine and an asylum for elderly women before shutting its doors in 1886. After its closure ...

The largest of the royal parks, Hyde Park will be a popular gathering ... who was stationed at the park barracks. Once owned by monks, Henry VIII appropriated the land after the dissolution ...

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The daughter of a British soldier who was killed in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing has been awarded ... heard the explosion near ...