Laila Ellmoos is an historian with the City of Sydney and for many years presented 6-part series on aspects of Sydney history. In a new history series, titled, Events That Shaped Sydney, she looks at several topics: the assassination attempt on the life of Prince Alfred, son of Queen Victoria during a royal visit in 1868, the Spanish flu, which arrived in Sydney in 1919, primarily with the troop ships returning from war in Europe where the disease began, The Glebe timber strike of 1929 where women took up the fight, the Greycliffe disaster, still known as Sydney’s greatest maritime disaster where a ferry collided with a large ship with the loss of 40 lives, Black Sunday in the summer of 1938 where hundreds of people were swept out to sea at Bondi and a series of murders in 1950s by Thalium, a useful rat poison when Sydney was experiencing a rat plague.