ADELAIDEAZ | A-Z of Adelaide and South Australia

ADELAIDEAZ connects vertical and horizontal threads of Adelaide and South Australian culture in the context of past, present, future.

It explores how Adelaide, as capital of South Australia, has so many extraordinary, often exceptional, patterns through the tapestry of its A-to-Z page categories.

ADELAIDEAZ has hundreds of articles about Adelaide and South Australia presented in their A-to-Z page categories -
from ABORIGINAL, ARCHITECTURE, ACHIEVERS to ZONING, ZERO WASTE AND ZOOS.

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ADELAIDEAZ website is a work in progress that aims to build connections and context - the full past-present-future context of aspects of Adelaide and its state of South Australia.

It's not an encyclopaedic or specialised view of Adelaide and South Australia. It's a roughly chronological overview sketch, to identify some interconnecting threads and patterns that shaped, and continue to shape, the cultural tapestry of the city and state.

The history of Adelaide and South Australia is well served by a cluster of websites including the South Australian History Hub, South Australian History Trust's Adelaidia, Flinders Ranges Research, Adelaide City Explorer, Weekend Notes, Adelaide City Heritage (National Trust), Autopsy of Adelaide, and the State Library of South Australia's SA Memory. South Australian historians have been well supported by Wakefield Press. And, via Torrens Press, the three-volume Behind the streets of Adelaide by Dr Jeff Nicholas (2016) is a crowning achievement.

The State Library also is an excellent resource for historic images. These history websites are backed by other excellent sources such as The Australian Dictionary of Biography, maintained by the Australian National University, along with a plethora of books and papers, including those listed below.

Media coverage of Adelaide and South Australia of day-to-day issues is intensive. But the ephemeral and selective nature of news media means the overall ongoing picture, in an historical context, of what's happening in the state gets lost.

ADELAIDEAZ is merely drawing on these history and contemporary sites and other sources to build an accessible overall picture in range of categories that make up the distinct character of the city and its state.

That overall connected picture, in a past-present-future context, is the main aim of ADELAIDEAZ