The jacket was given to Mr Frederick Budge of Farina, South Australia, by a Muslim (‘Afghan’) trader he knew who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, at some time in the 1890s. 

A long-running dispute over a senior nursing appointment culminated with a medical officers’ strike and the temporary loss of medical teaching at the Adelaide Hospital

Menu produced for the Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd. SS Allinga for Christmas 1901. 

Independent auditing of Government is established in the position of the colonies first auditor general

With their carnivals and regattas, bathing-beauty competitions, amusements, sea and sand, beaches were one of the key gathering places for South Australians from the 1870s to the 1950s. 

Climate was and still is an important factor in how and where South Australia first settled. 

This cup was presented to the Art Gallery of South Australia by Queen Mary as part of Empire-wide celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935.

Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business interests. Alexander Lang Elder (1815–1885), the pioneer, arrived in 1839 and established a trading business. 

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public film screening in South Australia occurred at the Theatre Royal in Hindley Street

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely populated deserts around Lake Eyre

The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled. 

There is evidence that hawkers were active in Australia as early as the 1820s. 

In 1881 Adelaide became the first Australian capital city to be connected to a water-borne sewerage system. 

Labour settlements were created during the 1890s to trial collective ownership, new farming technology and the high unemployment created by the Depression.

The evolving profession in South Australia retained some centuries-old practices.

Miniature furniture brought across the seas for Australian children. 

This paint box is believed to have belonged to soldier, public servant and explorer, Captain Charles Sturt.

Wooden post used to mark the point where the boundaries of South Australia the Northern Territory and Queensland meet.

Radicalism has been inherent in South Australian history from its founding as a free settlement.  Based upon the English radical liberal thought of its founders, the State's reputation grew as a progressive colony and the first to entirely separate church from state.

In general refugees have enriched and diversified South Australia’s religions, universities and schools, food, the arts, newspapers, clubs and sports.

The Stanhope press brought to Holdfast Bay in 1836 was used to print the Proclamation of South Australia. 

The History Trust of South Australia is coordinating a series of programs and events to mark the 125th anniversary of womens suffrage in South Autralia. In December 1894, after decades of activism, women in South Australia were awarded the right to vote and stand for parliament. In 2019 we will celebrate the victory of the early suffragists such as Mary Lee, Augusta Zadow, Catherine Helen Spence and those who joined the fight. The Suffrage 125 initiative will explore issues of gender equality over the past 125 years.

Survey chain used by Isaac Guley in surveying the City of Adelaide with Colonel Light.

South Australia’s first vice-regal proclamation was read at Holdfast Bay on 28 December 1836

The Torrens title system for land ownership was inaugurated in South Australia  has led the world in the computerisation of real property title information.

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and overseas markets.