This festival is widely recognised as one of the great international arts festivals, while its accompanying Writers’ Week is the largest literary event of its kind.

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown into the River Torrens. Rumours spread that officers from the vice squad engaged in ‘poofter bashing’ had killed Duncan.

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers on National Flower Day.

A collection held by the Migration Museum documenting the life of Antonio Giordano. 

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

Violence and election irregularities marred the process when, in 1855, South Australians got their first chance to elect politicians drawn from, and responsible to, the people.

A collection of nearly 400 objects related to the foundation and settlement of the British colony of South Australia. 

The Adelaide Mosque, the oldest in Australia, has been the centre of Islamic festivals since the 1890s

Adelaide’s very first Gay Pride March took place on Saturday 15 September 1973. 

A collection of objects related to the Sym Choon family, reflecting their lives as first generation Australians with Chinese heritage.

Crowds gathered on 22 April 1857 to watch Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell open South Australia’s first fully elected parliament.