In the bicentennial year of the Benevolent Society's foundation, Hindsight visits their archives in the Mitchell Library with family historians, and traces key milestones in its early Sydney history.
Interviews with family historians Max Carrick, Sue Millwood, Anne Wimshurst; Paul Brunton, Emeritus Curator Mitchell Library; Associate Professor Anne O'Brien of University of NSW; Dr Erin Ihde of University of New England; Dr Tanya Evans, Macquarie University.